The YouTube platform is regularly accused of stirring up hatred.

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Despite the implementation of measures to combat hateful and discriminatory content, YouTube still hosts too many videos inciting violence, says the Anti Defamation League (ADL).

This American association draws this observation from a study conducted among 915 people and relayed on its site on Friday.

It shows that 9% of platform users surveyed have viewed at least one extremist video.

22% of respondents to the survey have also watched a clip on a YouTube channel likely to broadcast images stirring hatred.

The study identified 322 of these channels but also 290 others qualified as extremists or advocating white supremacism.

91 of these 612 channels were removed by January 21.

YouTube also wanted to detail its efforts in this area.

Insufficient efforts

"We have a clear policy that prohibits hate speech and harassment," the company said in a statement sent to

The Hill

.

The platform thus claimed to have deactivated 235,000 channels in one quarter that did not comply with this regulation.

"Since 2019, we have […] limited the scope of content that does not break the rules but is close to doing so by ensuring that it is not recommended to users who do not seek it", a also indicated YouTube.

The ADL, however, deemed these steps insufficient.

Through the voice of its president Jonathan Greenblatt, she asks social networks to accelerate their efforts.

"If they don't, then they will have to be held accountable when their system, designed to attract users, turns out to amplify dangerous content leading to violence," he said.

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  • Social networks

  • Cyber ​​harassment

  • Violence

  • High Tech

  • Extremism

  • Youtube