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| YouTube deleted 11 million videos in 3 months |
YouTube deleted 11.4 million videos between April and June, and the company said the vast majority of videos (10.85 million) were reported by the automated system alone.
According to the app's Community Guidelines report, the platform will remove more videos than ever before in the second quarter of 2020 as the company relies on its algorithms more than most human content hosts.
The video-sharing platform says: The spread of the coronavirus has dramatically reduced the ability to manually review videos and repeatedly check for violations of usage guidelines.
For this reason, YouTube decided to implement a strictly automated system as the platform deleted more than double the number of videos deleted between January and March.
YouTube stated that it decided, for very precise reasons, to strictly enforce these policy areas, resulting in the removal of content suspected of being linked to violent extremism or harmful to children three times.
This includes challenges or other harmless messages that may put minors at risk.
YouTube typically relies on automation to tag and then evaluate videos.
Relying on automation only this time, I made sure more people were in the appeal process so you could quickly review the appeal.
Less than 3% of deletions resulted in refunds, but YouTube's recovery rate doubled in the last quarter.
The number of content removal calls increased from 166,000 in the first quarter of 2020 to more than 325,000 in the second quarter.
The platform provided more than 160,000 videos in the second quarter and just over 41,000 videos in the first quarter.
Among the deleted videos, 3.8 million videos were deleted due to child safety reasons, 3.2 million videos were deleted due to spam or fraud, 1.7 million videos were deleted due to nudity or pornography, and 120,000 videos were removed due to violence. Video. Videos promoting violence.
After notifying users, 382,000 videos were removed, including 167,000 trusted people, 2,220 NGOs, and 25 government agencies, and three-quarters of the videos were removed before the number of views exceeded 10.