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As you can see, it took ten months to catch a vicious YouTuber because Google, the YouTube operator, is not very cooperative.

Even identifying a criminal suspect is not easy.

In the meantime, fake news spreads, the number of views rises, and eventually makes money.



Reporter Jeong Ban-seok covered whether there are any fundamental measures to block illegal activities.



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Victim A reported to YouTube whenever he was sexually assaulted.



However, I have not been able to confirm the violation or I have been told to obtain a court order.




[Mr. A / Victim of defamation: YouTube did not take any special action despite YouTubers constantly slandering and harassing.] In



order to apply for a court injunction for video deletion or to investigate the police, you need to know the YouTuber's identity. do.



However, Google, which operates YouTube, often rejects requests for identification in defamation cases.



[Yang Hong-seok / Attorney: Even if you ask for temporary measures, they do not do it properly, they do not tell you your identity according to the Information and Communications Network Act, and if you try to sue, they tell you to go to the Google headquarters, and it is practically difficult to get a real remedy... .] As a



result, YouTubers who make money by posting fake news on issues of great social interest are booming.




[Daejeon Police Commissioner impersonation YouTube video: Daejeon Police Commissioner has read a lot of news about Son Jung-min over the past few days. He added that there were a lot of nonsense



in the Son

Jung-min case.] A

YouTuber who posted fake news was sued and then changed the related video to private, but recently changed the channel name and uploaded the related video again.



According to a YouTube statistical analysis site, the number of views on this YouTube channel skyrocketed nearly 200 times after uploading the related video.



It is estimated that the channel revenue, which was almost non-existent, was also made close to 1 million won a day.



There are growing calls to strengthen the responsibility of operators for damage relief efforts and to recover profits from fake news as criminal proceeds.



(Video coverage: Lee Yong, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee, CG: Jo Su-in)