YouTube video removals soar as software enforces rules

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YouTube says that video removals soared in the next quarter of this year as the company relied more on software to enforce content rules to safeguard employees from the pandemic.

Slightly more than 11.4 million videos were pulled from the favorite online platform, nearly double the quantity removed in the first 90 days of the year, setting a fresh quarterly record for the Google-owned company.

"When reckoning with greatly reduced human review capacity because of COVID-19, we were forced to produce a choice between potential under-enforcement or potential over-enforcement," YouTube said in a blog post with the most recent enforcement figures.

The video-streaming site said it opted to "cast a wider net to ensure that the most content that may potentially harm the community will be quickly removed," realizing that without humans making judgment calls, some videos that don't actually violate policies would be taken down.

YouTube devoted extra resources to reviewing take-down appeals, which doubled from the prior quarter but remained less than 3 percent of the full total, in line with the company.

For decisions on removing content such as for example violent extremism and child safety, YouTube tolerated a lower level of accuracy that led to a tripling of the amount of videos pulled for breaking those rules, the report said.

About a third of all videos removed in the quarter were done so for endangering child safety, with such content including dares or challenges to do things that could get them hurt.

Another 28 percent of the removed videos violated rules against spam, scams and misleading content, based on the report.

"We are continuing to increase the accuracy of our systems and, as reviewers can get back to work, we are deploying them to the best impact areas," YouTube said. 
Source: https://japantoday.com

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