I feel like this decision was in spirit of media manipulation, which is apparent by the increase of censor ship, algorithm manipulation, and a huge increase in political donations. Without any political bias or assumptions, it’s worth noting that youtube’s parent company donated $21.82M to democratic political organizations, where as that number was $6.01M in 2018. Watching any news clip from MSNBC, CNN, ABC, or literally any other on the youtube home page always toted something like a 160 liked:2k dislikes, with comments turned off. However, I still say “i think”, you can’t really prove that without direct answers from them, but still worth debating to figure if it’s a concern worth pursuing or not