YouTube's Chief Product Officer has insulted his own users as basement-dwellers who deserve to be relegated by the algorithm in favor of "authoritative" mainstream sources.

Neil Mohan made the remarks during an interview with Protocol's editor at large David Pierce after he was asked if YouTube had to switch its approach to moderating content given the ever changing advice of health authorities in relation to the coronavirus.

Mohan said that this was the reason YouTube was "raising up authoritative voices," which is a euphemism for suppressing voices that aren't part of the mainstream media, despite the fact that the public's trust in the media during the coronavirus pandemic has plummeted even further.

He then went on to insult his own user base as basement-dwelling idiots.