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Author-vloggers Hank and John Green are turning their educational media company Complexly into a nonprofit. The multihyphenate brothers garner millions of views on popular shows such as Crash Course that explain common classroom subjects in engaging ways. The change is intended to ensure viewers have access to engaging, fact-based content that can compete free of advertisers’ interests in the attention economy. And the move comes as John says, “there’s never been more information and yet there’s never been less information that you feel you can trust.” He hopes that making Complexly a “public good” will help the production studio make more trustworthy content.