Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died at the age of 56, her family has revealed.
Wojcicki, who was a key figure in the early days of Google, passed away after a two-year battle with cancer.
Her death was met with widespread mourning and tributes from the tech and online creator communities, recognizing her significant contributions to the growth and development of YouTube.
Wojcicki’s legacy includes her role in shaping YouTube’s policies and her efforts to support content creators, despite facing criticism for certain decisions during her tenure.
She led the controversial censorship efforts at the video streaming platform following President Donald Trump’s election victory in 2016.
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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died from lung cancer. She became infamous for implementing heavy-handed censorship during Covid, but was confident she was “on the right side of history.”
Here she describes how YouTube scrambled to take down the “Plandemic” documentary… pic.twitter.com/jTGpgzszhH
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Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, has passed away at the age of 56 after a two-year battle with cancer.
Here’s Wojcicki explaining how she tackled vaccine misinformation in Youtube during 2021. pic.twitter.com/sERwRfYQFs
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