10,000 people to save YouTube from not allowing abusive content on site

London, December 6: In order to monitor and control violent and abusive content, YouTube set to hire 10,000 people. In an announcement, YouTube said that it will hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with curbing content that endangers children. 

YouTube along with Facebook, Google and Twitter have come under scrutiny over the availability of terrorist material and propaganda on their platforms. YouTube last month announced it will remove content on the platform that attempts to pass as being “friendly for kids”.

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.

“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 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.