Google is going on a hiring spree to try to stamp out offensive videos and comments on YouTube. The company is recruiting thousands of reviewers to reduce the amount of "problematic content" on its video platform. By 2018, Google (GOOGL, Tech30) aims to have more than 10,000 people "working to address content that might violate our policies," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said in a blog post. Related: Google cracks down on disturbing cartoons on Youtube KidsThe company isn't just banking on more human intervention, however. Its machine learning algorithms have helped remove more than 150,000 videos from YouTube since June that depict violent extremism.

Source: CNN December 05, 2017 12:00 UTC