SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube said Tuesday that video removals soared in the second quarter of this year as the company relied more on software to enforce content rules to protect workers from the pandemic.
“When reckoning with greatly reduced human review capacity due to Covid-19, we were forced to choose between potential under-enforcement or potential over-enforcement,” YouTube said in a blog post with the latest enforcement figures. YouTube devoted extra resources to reviewing take-down appeals, which doubled from the previous quarter but remained less than 3% of the total, according to the company.
About a third of all the 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.