Should YouTube police its top stars' videos?

The Daily Beast reporter Taylor Lorenz talks with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode about the state of YouTube in early 2018. The online video platform is more culturally powerful than ever, with no signs of slowing down. However, some of its biggest stars have begun to attract negative attention in recent years, most recently when YouTuber Logan Paul released a video of a human corpse filmed at a "suicide forest" in Japan. Lorenz explains what the site could be doing to keep videos like that off its platform — and why it hasn't been willing to proactively police videos in the past. She also talks about how YouTubers make money (spoiler alert: Merch!), why some of them ask journalists to pay them for interviews and how reality show-esque drama among video creators has taken over the site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices