YouTube will hire 10,000 people to monitor and
control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with
curbing content that endangers children.
In an interview to The Daily Telegraph, Susan
Wojcicki, Chief Executive of the Google-owned video-sharing site, said that
"bad actors are exploiting" YouTube to "mislead, manipulate,
harass or even harm".
"We will continue the growth of our teams,
with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to
address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018,"
Wojcicki was quoted as saying.
YouTube along with Facebook, Google and Twitter
have come under scrutiny over the availability of terrorist material and
propaganda on their platforms.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has also
asked social media platforms to remove terror content after a series of
terror-related attacks this year in the country.
"The tech companies have made significant
progress on this issue, but we need to go further and faster to reduce the time
it takes to reduce terrorist content online," May said.
YouTube last month announced it will remove
content on the platform that attempts to pass as being "friendly for
kids".
"While some of these videos may be
suitable for adults, others are completely unacceptable, so we are working to
remove them from YouTube," Johanna Wright, Vice President of Product
Management, YouTube, wrote in a blog post.
The Google-owned company will apply machine
learning technology and automated tools in order to discover potentially
exploitive content.
YouTube has terminated 50 channels and removed
thousands of videos as also advertisements from 5,00,000 exploitive videos
under the current set of guidelines.
The company will also continue to work with the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to report the potentially illegal behaviour to law
enforcement, said Wright.
Meanwhile, YouTube Kids has announced new
measures for parents if they find children watching inappropriate videos at
home even by mistake.
With over 800 million learning video views per
day, YouTube Kids is now live in 37 countries.
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