YouTube today announced that it has removed over 2.9 million videos in India for violating its community guidelines. India led the list of countries with the highest number of video takedowns. Globally, the video platform removed 9.4 million videos.
Compared to the same period last year, the number of videos removed in India has increased. In October-December 2023, YouTube removed 2.25 million videos in India.
Some of the reasons for the removal of videos were child safety (53.8%), harmful or dangerous content (16%), violent or graphic content (8.9%), and harassment and bullying (7.4%), among others.
More than 96% of these videos were first flagged by machines rather than humans, said YouTube.
Of the videos detected by machines, 54.9% were removed before they received a single view, about 25.3% received between 1 and 10 views before removal, 9.5% received between 11 and 100 views before removal, and 6.5% received between 101 and 1,000 views before removal.
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