Wojcicki said that in addition to an increase in human moderators, YouTube is continuing to develop advanced machine-learning technology to automatically flag problematic content for removal. In recent weeks, YouTube has used machine learning technology to help human moderators find and shut down hundreds of accounts and hundreds of thousands of comments, according to Wojcicki. Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said human moderators ‘remain essential to removing content’. YouTube said machine learning was helping its human moderators remove nearly five times as many videos as they were previously, and that 98% of videos removed for violent extremism are now flagged by algorithms. In March, a number of corporations also pulled their YouTube ads after learning that they were linked to videos with hate speech and extremist content.

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2017 02:01 UTC