https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dy87gy/youtube-is-cashing-in-on-trumps-election-conspiracy-during-giuliani-livestream

Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani called a press conference and rambled uninterrupted about every possible election conspiracy theory we’ve seen over the last few weeks. While this was happening, YouTube collected direct payments from conspiracy theorists, who paid money to spread their unfounded conspiracies in the live chats.

In 2017, YouTube launched a feature called “Super Chats & Super Stickers,” which allow YouTube viewers to pay to pin comments at the top of livestream comment boxes. The payment is collected by YouTube. Roughly 70 percent of the fee collected goes to the channel’s owner, and YouTube keeps 30 percent of the fee.