Machine Learning Upping Pace of Flagging, Removing Videos, YouTube Says

YouTube pulled more than 8 million videos in Q4, most being spam or adult content, the company blogged Monday. It said 6.7 million videos were first flagged for review by its software, and 76 percent of those were removed before receiving a single view. It said machine learning flagging -- introduced in June -- is catching problematic video earlier. It said at the start of 2017, 8 percent of the videos flagged and removed for violent extremism were taken down with fewer than 10 views, but now more than half of those removed for extremism get that viewership. It's introducing a Reporting History dashboard that lets users see the status of videos they flagged for the Alphabet/Google affiliated company to review.