Then, hours after reporters highlighted them to YouTube, asking for comment, the videos disappeared. Often, the companies’ arbitrary enforcement efforts and inadequate algorithms have failed to reject the abusive material, even though it violated official policies and standards. Some families of mass shooting victims have also spent countless hours trying to get YouTube to remove harassing videos from conspiracy theorists. A Twitter representative touted its machine learning technology and said it detected and blocks 450,000 suspicious logins each day. That team works to evaluate whether content violates “community standards”, the representative noted, adding, “We aren’t the arbiters of truth.”

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2017 07:52 UTC