BOARD #3 — WHO WORKS INSIDE GOOGLE’S PUBLISHER ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM?
Board #2 mapped the teams and functions surrounding Google’s publisher monetization, policy and enforcement systems.
Board #3 goes inside those functions — examining the publicly documented professional histories of people who have worked in or around Publisher Quality, Publisher Policy and Trust & Safety.
[1] HIROYUKI HATTORI
Senior Data Analyst, Publisher Quality, Trust & Safety at Google.
His public professional profile describes work involving anti-spam, anti-abuse, account security and platform integrity across Google advertising products including AdSense and AdMob.
His documented work also includes data analysis, machine-learning classifier development, and collaboration with engineering and product teams on products and policies.
[2] DIANA MAZUERA
Mazuera publicly described spending five years in Publisher Quality and working on projects that contributed to the team’s evolving enforcement mechanisms before moving into Scaled Operations within Trust & Safety.
In describing that professional environment, she also publicly acknowledged Charles Momeny, Maurice Chan, Abe Weston and Yoyo W. as sponsors or mentors.
This identifies professional connections — it does not establish reporting relationships.
[3] CHARLES MOMENY
A former Google Senior Program Manager.
His publicly available professional history states that during 2017–2019 he directed Publisher Quality and ad-policy programs.
[4] JIM GRAY
Historical professional material from a 2016 Trust & Safety event identifies Jim Gray as:
“Director, Ad Traffic and Publisher Quality, Google.”
This provides documented historical evidence of a director-level connection between Ad Traffic Quality and Publisher Quality during that period.
It does NOT establish Google’s current organizational structure.
[5] TAKEAKI KANAYA
A former Google employee who spent more than 16 years at the company and served as Senior Strategist, Trust & Safety from 2020–2023.
His public professional profile specifically identifies:
“Publisher Policy (AdSense, AdMob and Ad Manager)”
as one of his areas of work.
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IMPORTANT CONTEXT
These people did not necessarily report to one another.
Nothing on this board claims that any individual shown was personally responsible for any particular account decision.
Current roles, former roles, historical information and functional connections are deliberately distinguished.
What the public record DOES show is that behind automated systems, policy pages and support processes are identifiable professional teams and people performing specific functions.
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Four months ago, I was creating new worlds and writing music.
I could hardly wait for morning to come so I could wake up and immerse myself in that work again.
I created constantly — and I loved it.
That stopped when Google closed my accounts.
Now I have plenty of time — but instead of spending it creating music and new worlds, I spend it navigating bureaucracy and trying to understand a system that still has not given me a substantive explanation.
So I decided to understand that system properly.
Who writes the policies?
Who builds the enforcement mechanisms?
Who analyzes publisher compliance?
Who reviews decisions?
Who manages these teams?
These are not secret identities. These are professional roles documented in publicly available sources.
So the research continues.
Person by person.
Team by team.
Role by role.
Source by source.
If a global platform has the power to make decisions that can profoundly affect creators and publishers, there is nothing unreasonable about the public knowing who operates that system, how it is structured, and where responsibility sits.
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NEXT — BOARD #4:
WHO SHAPES WHAT YOUTUBE RECOMMENDS?
Next, the research moves to YouTube’s recommendation and discovery systems — beginning with Todd Beaupré, Senior Director of Growth & Discovery at YouTube, and the publicly documented people and teams working around recommendation, ranking and discovery.
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PUBLIC SOURCES / VERIFY IT YOURSELF:
[1] Hiroyuki Hattori — public professional profile:
jp.linkedin.com/in/hiroyuki-…
[2] Diana Mazuera — public professional profile:
linkedin.com/in/diana-mazuer…
[3] Charles Momeny — public professional profile:
himalayas.app/@charlesmomeny
[4] Jim Gray — 2016 Trust & Safety professional event record:
linkedin.com/pulse/april-tru…
[5] Takeaki Kanaya — public professional profile:
jp.linkedin.com/in/jumpingkn…
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For the attention of:
@Google
@GoogleAds
@TeamYouTube
@GforPublishers
@YouTube
@YouTubeCreators
@YouTubeInsider
@NewsFromGoogle