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YouTube removes 600,000 Indonesian videos last quarter
Around 10 million videos removed by YouTube potentially violated the platform's guidelines as they were indicated to contain extremism, violence or could harm minors.
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More than 600,000 videos from Indonesian users were removed by YouTube in the second quarter of 2020. (Shutterstock/Ink Drop)
YouTube has announced that it removed more than 11.4 million videos between April and June this year.
The number of videos removed during the period was almost twice the number from January to March, in which 6.1 million videos were removed.
According to kompas.com, more than 600,000 videos from Indonesian users were removed, the fourth most of any country. With 2.06 million videos, the United States ranked first, followed by India and Brazil in second and third place, respectively.
YouTube said Tuesday that video removals soared in the second quarter of this year as the company relied more on software to enforce content rules to protect workers from the pandemic, as reported by AFP.
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"When reckoning with greatly reduced human review capacity due to COVID-19, we were forced to make a choice between potential under-enforcement or potential over-enforcement," YouTube said in a blog post.
According to the report, 10.85 million videos that were removed were spotted by YouTube's automated flagging system. The videos potentially violated YouTube's Community Guidelines as they were indicated to contain extremism, violence or could harm minors.
Around 3.8 million videos were removed for child-safety reasons, 3.2 million videos were indicated to be spam or fraud, 1.7 million videos contained sex and nudity, 1.2 million videos contained violence, while 900,000 videos were detected as promoting violence.
With YouTube relying on automation alone, the platform added extra resources to review any appeals against the removals. However, less than 3 percent of removals resulted in an appeal. (gis/wng)
