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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nYouTube says it has removed more than 17,000 channels for \u201chate speech\u201d, representing a spike in takedowns since its new \u201chate speech policy\u201d went into effect in June.<\/em><\/p>\n THE GOOGLE-OWNED company calls the June update \u2014 in which YouTube said it would specifically prohibit videos that \u201cglorify Nazi ideology\u201d or deny \u201cdocumented violent events\u201d like the so-called Holocaust \u2014 a \u201cfundamental shift in our policies\u201d that resulted in the takedown of more than 100,000 individual videos during the second quarter of the year. The number of comments removed during the same period doubled to over 500 million, in part due to the new \u201chate speech policy\u201d.<\/p>\n YouTube said that the 30,000 videos it had removed in the last month represented 3 percent of the views that knitting videos generated during the same period.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been removing harmful content since YouTube started, but our investment in this work has accelerated in recent years,\u201d the company wrote in a Sept. 3 blog post detailing its efforts to clean up its platform through the removal of videos that violate its standards.<\/p>\n YouTube, which has 2 billion monthly logged-in users, has come under fire in recent years for its struggle to keep up with the constant influx of new content that \u201cpromotes violence, hate speech or misinformation\u201d. The company has taken steps to\u00a0censor its platform and remove such content, relying on its machine learning technology to help detect videos that are in need of human review. In the blog post, YouTube said an update to its spam detection system during the second quarter led to a 50 percent increase in the number of channels that were terminated for violating its spam policies.<\/p>\n Together with Google, YouTube also has a team of over 10,000 people who focus on detecting, reviewing and removing videos that violate its policies.<\/p>\n YouTube says the videos removed represented a five-times increase compared with the previous three months. Still, in early August the ADL\u2019s Center on \u201cExtremism\u201d reported finding \u201ca significant number of channels that continue to spread anti-Semitic and white supremacist content\u201d.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0Daily Archives<\/a><\/p>\n