Susan Wojcicki Steps Down As YouTube CEO, As Congress Subpoenas Big Tech Companies Over Censorship Complaints

After nearly 25 years at Google and nearly 10 years as YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki 54, announces that she is stepping down. In a letter to employees, she says she's leaving in order to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I’m passionate about.”

Google’s 16th employee Wojcicki -- who was briefly co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page’s landlord -- was appointed CEO in 2014. She reportedly suggested that Google should buy YouTube, which the company eventually did for $1.65 billion in 2006.

“Susan has a unique place in Google history and has made the most incredible contribution to products used by people everywhere,” Page and Brin said in a statement obtained by Recode. “We’re so grateful for all she’s done over the last 25 years.”

YouTube’s longtime chief product officer Neal Mohan, will replace Wojcicki who herself says she’ll take on an “advisory role” across Google and Alphabet, offering counsel and guidance.

“I plan to support Neal and help with the transition, which will include continuing to work with some YouTube teams, coaching team members, and meeting with creators,” Wojcicki continued in her statement. “With all we’re doing across [YouTube] Shorts, streaming and subscriptions, together with the promises of AI, YouTube’s most exciting opportunities are ahead, and Neal is the right person to lead us.”

Mohan came to Google with the tech giant’s DoubleClick acquisition in 2007, and -- as his responsibilities grew -- he was promoted to SVP of display and video ads before assuming his current role in 2015.

Wojcicki tenure at YouTube was marred in recent years by censorship complaints from popular content creators who accuse the woke CEO of near-fascistic clamp down on free speech. The streaming giant routinely suspends right-leaning and self-improvement content creators, while algorithmically promoting degenerate left-wing content including pedophilia.

"Susan Wojcicki is another example of a billionaire using woke leftism to push globalism," said popular content creator Sneako who was banned from YouTube last year along with Andrew Tate, when he started questioning the left's promotion of degeneracy and globalization. "Do you really think billionaires cares about racism and gender fluidity? I was terminated for: 1. Covid misinformation 2. Election misinformation 3. Cyberbullying Aka telling the truth."

Critics point out they don't expect the woke company to change direction under Mohan. And many wonder if Wojcicki sudden exit is related to upcoming congressional inquiry into Big Tech collusion with left-wing government bureaucrats to censor American citizens on social media platforms.

The US House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas on Wednesday requiring Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft to hand over records regarding “censorship” collaboration with the US government. Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) set a March 23 deadline for the companies to hand over content removal communications with and regarding the executive branch.

“To develop effective legislation, such as the possible enactment of new statutory limits on the Executive Branch’s ability to work with Big Tech to restrict the circulation of content and deplatform users, the Committee on the Judiciary must first understand how and to what extent the Executive Branch coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech,” Jordan wrote in letters to the five companies. “To this end, we have asked for communications between [your company] and the Executive Branch, internal [company] communications discussing communications from the Executive Branch, and [company] communications with third parties that may have been working with the Executive Branch, in addition to other key information.”

The letters praise new Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who took over the platform in October and weeks later released internal documents detailing historic censorship decisions and extensive collaboration between the FBI and Twitter employees.

“Twitter recently set a benchmark for how transparent Big Tech companies can be about interactions with government over censorship," Jordan wrote. "The Twitter Files have exposed how Big Tech and the federal government have worked hand in hand in ways that undermine First Amendment principles.”

“Numerous internal documents from Twitter reflect the weaponization of the federal government’s power to censor speech online," he wrote. It is necessary for Congress to gauge the extent to which this occurred at [your company] as well.”