In the second quarter of 2020, YouTube largely automated moderation and subsequent removal of content. As a result, the number of videos removed from the platform during this period more than doubled from the previous quarter. YouTube said in the official blog.
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The decision to entrust most moderation to automation was driven by staff reductions and the shift of employees to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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\”As a result, we are temporarily relying more on technology to assist with the work normally performed by human reviewers. This means we have removed more content that may not violate our policy,\” YouTube said.
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As a result, from April through June, more than 11.4 million videos were removed from the platform.
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Earlier in April, YouTube deleted the channel of the well-known cryptocurrency trader Tone Vays. In an interview with ForkLog, he suggested that the reason was \”an automatic triggering of a faulty algorithm.\” The channel was later restored.
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Also in April, YouTube temporarily blocked the account of Ripple’s fintech startup’s chief technology officer, David Schwartz, deeming it fraudulent.
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Meanwhile, Ripple and the company’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse filed suit against YouTube, accusing the service of not taking any measures against scammers promoting fake XRP token giveaways on their behalf.
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In June, the platform banned the account of the cryptocurrency information portal Bitcoin.com.
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YouTube had also fairly often blocked cryptocurrency content. In light of this, and Google’s opaque policy, ForkLog magazine supported the #ForkGoogle information campaign.
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The initiative aims to support the development of alternative distributed technologies based on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency systems.
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As part of the campaign, ForkLog reported on decentralized alternatives to YouTube.
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#ForkGoogle: who and how blockchain competitors to YouTube are built
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