By 2018, Google will employ roughly 10,000 content moderators and other professionals tasked with addressing violations of its content policies. The move follows reports last month in which YouTube videos surfaced showing children in disturbing and potentially exploitative situations, including being duct-taped to walls, mock-abducted and forced into washing machines, according to a BuzzFeed report. Google said it removed 150,000 violent extremist videos since June. Ninety-eight percent of violent extremist videos removed are now flagged by Google’s software, up from 76 percent in August, the company said in its blog. Google and its Silicon Valley counterparts have said they hope to train software to do most of the policing work.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2017 21:23 UTC