Last week, YouTube said it took down more than 150,000 videos featuring children and disabled comments for more than 625,000 videos. YouTube said it had been successful in catching extremist videos using machine learning. Since YouTube laid out new policies aimed at curbing extremist videos on the platform after the London Bridge attacks in June, the company said its machines have improved at catching extremist videos shortly after they were uploaded. YouTube said it has taken down 150,000 videos for violent extremism — in large part because of machines flagging more videos for human reviewers to take down. The video service said it planned to take a similar approach to tackling videos unsafe for children and content featuring hate speech.

Source: thestar December 05, 2017 21:11 UTC