YouTube has reportedly removed the account of Soph, a 14-year-old girl with nearly 1 million followers, after she uploaded a video attacking LGBTQ people. The video, which has since been taken down along with Soph’s account, is an anti-gay rant titled
YouTube banned six prominent white nationalist channels from its platform on Monday for repeatedly breaking the site's hate speech rules. Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images A slew of major far-right video personalities just lost their online home. On Monday, YouTube banned a hal...
YouTube has become the latest platform to ban controversial influencer Andrew Tate for breaching its hate speech rules. The ban comes days after the former kickboxer, branded a "threat to young men", had hisofficial accounts removed from Facebook and Instagramfor violat...
YouTubehas announced a new plan to ban and remove videos promoting extreme views such as white supremacy, sexism and racism in its latest attempt to rid the the site of hate speech. The company, which is owned by Google, detailed their plan in ablog postWednesday, writing that the...
The company said it was monitoring the situation for any content that might violate its rules. YouTube said it had terminated around 20 channels and removed over 160 videos in the past couple months for violating its policies regarding hate speech and harassment, spam and deceptive practic...
Reuters also flagged six videos to YouTube that came up during the experiment. YouTube has since taken one down - an interview with an Australian neo-Nazi leader - for violating the site's hate speech rules. An account promoting misogynistic content was removed. Four of the videos remain onl...
Of course, as the Maza case has shown, YouTube doesn’t always enforce its own rules. It’s one thing to make a policy, and it’s another to ensure that a global workforce of underpaid contractors accurately understands and applies it. It will be fascinating to see how the new p...
YouTube in recent weeks has been besieged by various scandals and responded to some by strengthening hate speech rules. A new report today details one major change being discussed to better protect kids on the site. ExpandMore from DroneDJ from DroneDJ slide 1 to 2 of 5 Elevate your ...
YouTube launched in 2005 as a video sharing platform, and was acquired by Google (now Alphabet) in 2006. It has built an entire community of creators that run channels dedicated to topics like gaming, tech reviews, and beauty. It also houses news videos
As we have said many times, “hate speech” is a term which can meanwhatever they want it to mean. YouTube are expanding on that though, creating a whole new category called “almost a bit like hate speech”. Yes, you don’t even have toactually break the rulesanymore: ...