Google increases number of staff detecting extremist content on YouTube

The U.S. IT giant, Google, will increase the number of employees
engaged in the detection of extremist content on its video-sharing
service YouTube, as well as other materials violating the service’s
rules, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said.

In June, Google announced additional measures to counter the spread of extremist data via YouTube.

The company voiced plans to widen the use of technologies to identify
extremist- and terrorist-related videos, to attract more experts to its
programme of identifying problematic videos, toughening the rules as
for the content that did not clearly violate YouTube’s rules and to
expand its role in struggle against radical movements.

“Since June, our trust and safety teams have manually reviewed nearly
two million videos for violent extremist content, helping train our
machine-learning technology to identify similar videos in the future.

“We will continue the significant growth of our teams into next year,
with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google
working to address content that might violate our policies to over
10,000 in 2018,” Wojcicki said in an article published on the official
blog of YouTube.

The official added that the company was also fighting against
aggression in comments, as well as cooperating with a number of child
safety groups, such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, in order to ensure fight against predatory behavior.

According to Wojcicki, YouTube has also exerted efforts to increase
the “network of academics, industry groups and subject matter experts”
that teach the company’s specialists to better respond to the
developments in the world and on the Internet.