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YouTube 'controversial query blacklist' (2018)

Google source file, dated July 2018 in the copy. Search queries listed here force YouTube's 'controversial twiddler' to trigger; the list is dominated by Las Vegas shooting and Stephen Paddock queries, including 'anti trump paddock' and 'democrat paddock'.

Internal Google material released by former engineer Zach Vorhies in 2019
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