Moderation and curation are not the same thing. To say YouTube makes editorial decisions largely hinges on whether or not someone thinks programmatically primit

Moderation and curation are not the same thing. To say YouTube makes editorial decisions largely hinges on whether or not someone thinks programmatically primitive content viewers are likely to watch counts as curation, which seems a bit far fetched to me. The only curation I've seen YouTube do is highly limited in nature (e.g. promoting YouTubers of color during black history month).