A U.S. federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit accusing YouTube of restricting or removing videos from Black and Hispanic content creators because of their race.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said that although the idea that YouTube's algorithm could discriminate based on race is plausible, the plaintiffs "do not come close" to suggesting they suffered any discrimination.
But the judge said YouTube promised only that its algorithm would not treat people differently based on their identities, not that the algorithm was infallible. In an example, he said YouTube's restriction of one plaintiff's "makeup tutorial" on how to create Donald Trump's "distinctive look" could reflect the plaintiff's mentioning the Ku Klux Klan and describing lighter makeup colors as white supremacy colors.
Chhabria also said some claims predated a recent update to YouTube's community guidelines, and that YouTube "cannot be liable for breaching a promise it had not yet made."
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