YouTube removes 58 million videos for content violations

YouTube deleted over 58 million videos and 224 million comments from the platform in the third quarter of 2018 (between July and September), according to a post on its official blog. The videos and comments were removed for violations of YouTube Community Guidelines.

YouTube says it's serious about accurately detecting and removing content that violates community policies so much that it launched April's YouTube Quarterly Guidelines for YouTube Community Guidelines.

Recently expanded the scope of the report to include additional data such as channel deletions, the number of comments removed, and the political reason why a video or channel was removed.

In order to cope with the monumental volume of content uploaded to YouTube every day, detection tools automated in addition to human reviewers to quickly identify spam, extremist content and nudity. The platform has over 10,000 reviewers at the moment.

From July to September this year, 7.8 million videos were deleted from YouTube. Of this 81% were first discovered by machines. Of those discovered by machines, 74.5% never had a single view.

In September, 90% of the nearly 10,400 videos were removed for violent extremism or 279,600 videos removed for child safety issues received less than 10 views.

The vast majority of attempted abuse comes from bad actors trying to upload spam or adult content: over 90% of the channels and over 80% of the videos we removed in September 2018 were removed to violate YouTube's guidelines for spam or adult content. 19659003] As with videos, combination automated detection and human reviewers are also used to flag, review, and remove spam, hate speech, and other abuse in the YouTube commentary section.

In the same quarter, YouTube removed over 224 million comments to break its community guidelines, it's mostly spam.

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