San Francisco (AFP)
YouTube will now give an estimate of the number of videos that are viewed before being removed from the platform for violating its rules, Google's video service announced on Tuesday.
Its quarterly content moderation report will include this "violation rate" to indicate what percentage of views are for content that violates its policy - significantly less than one percent, in this case, for the last three months of the year. 2020.
"This is a very low figure," said Jennifer O'Connor, the branch's security director, at a press conference.
"Obviously we want it to be even lower, and that's why my team is working day and night."
This rate means that content breaking the rules makes up about 16 to 18 in 10,000 views, she added.
The main rule not respected is that on spam.
YouTube did not detail which rules were taken into account in the calculation.
Automated moderation systems detect 94% of infringing content, and remove 75% before they reach ten "views".
Jennifer O'Connor explained that teams had been using this rate since 2017 internally, and that it had fallen by some 70% thanks to technological and human investments.
Since its first rule compliance report in 2018, YouTube has removed more than 83 million videos and 7 billion comments.
More than 20,000 people work to ensure the security of the entertainment platform of the Californian group.
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are regularly accused of not sufficiently tackling online disinformation and other abuses, or even encouraging them in order to arouse the interest of users for longer and thus generate more revenue. advertising.
Google and Facebook largely dominate the global digital advertising market.
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