A spokesperson for Google said: "We disagree with the verdict and plan to appeal. This case misunderstands YouTube, which is a responsibly built streaming platform, not a social media site.

Being a streaming platform doesn’t preclude it from also being a social media site. This is a bullshit deflection.

They have user registration and profiles, publication of user generated content, and interaction with that content through comments, likes, following and subscribing. Sure sounds like social media to me.