YouTube has removed thousands of videos of the radical Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in a significant step up for the site’s anti-extremism campaign. That breadth of material has left Awlaki’s work in a grey area for YouTube. The same search today returns less than 20,000, the vast majority of which are videos about Awlaki, rather than authored by him. Hadley said: “It’s easy to scapegoat particular videos and shy away from more fundamental questions about how radicalisation works. By 2011, it had implemented its policy of removing hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts, removing a few hundred Awlaki videos in the process.

Source: The Guardian November 13, 2017 12:11 UTC