YouTube tweets 'open letter' about Logan Paul's suicide video

In a series of tweets on Tuesday, YouTube condemned the disturbing suicide video shared by Logan Paul. 

The YouTube star, who currently has more than 15 million subscribers, shared a video on New Year's Day of a dead body he found in Japan's Aokigahara forest, known for the suicides that take place there.

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Afterwards, YouTube was criticized by many — including Mashable — for not doing more to prevent these kinds of videos from appearing on the platform. 

A little more than a week later, YouTube released an "open letter" on Twitter:  Read more...

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