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Briefing
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- Stronger Content Policing – Youtube chief Susan Wojcicki announced parent firm, Google, will increase content reviewing team to over 10,000 in 2018, alongside better machine-learning algorithms and stricter advertising criteria for channels to reduce “problematic” contents
- Related Event – Changes were announced following advertiser boycott over videos featuring children that became target of sexually inappropriate comments
- Platform Abuse – Shut down hundreds of accounts, deleted over 150,000 videos, and turned off comments on more than 625,000 videos eyed by suspected child predators in November 2017
- Scaled Response – To complement reviewing team, video-sharing firm will also improve use of machine-learning algorithms for quicker and more efficient removal of contents that violate guidelines
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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Alphabet Inc., Google Inc.
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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December 4, 2017
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