YouTube is banking on tech to clean up controversial content, as moderators stay home

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Between April and June, YouTube removed more than 11.4 million videos for violating its policies. That's more than double what it took down in the previous three months.

YouTube said Tuesday that it is increasingly relying on technology to moderate content, resulting in a sharp rise in removed videos, including some that didn't violate its policies.

The majority of the videos were related to spam, nudity and child safety, which YouTube defines as behavior harmful or exploitative to children, such as abuse or dares and challenges that could endanger minors. "When reckoning with greatly reduced human review capacity due to Covid-19, we were forced to make a choice between potential under-enforcement or potential over-enforcement," YouTube said in a blog post.

In a similar report earlier this month, Facebook said that sending moderators home limited its ability to moderate some content such as that related tto suicide and self-injury."With fewer content reviewers, who are essential in our continued efforts to increase enforcement in such sensitive areas, the amount of content we took action on decreased in Q2 from pre-Covid-19 levels," Facebook said.

 

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