"Google told Motherboard it employs 10,000 people across to moderate the company’s platforms and products.
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Google told Motherboard it had at some point taken the unusual step of automatically rejecting any footage of violence from the attack video, cutting out the process of a human determining the context of the clip. If, say, a news organization was impacted by this change, the outlet could appeal the decision, Google told Motherboard.
“We made the call to basically err on the side of machine intelligence, as opposed to waiting for human review,” YouTube’s Product Officer Neal Mohan told the Washington Post in an article published Monday.
Google also told Motherboard it tweaked the search function to show results from authoritative news sources, and suspended the ability to search for clips by upload date, making it harder for people to find copies of the attack footage.
"Since Friday’s horrific tragedy, we’ve removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of accounts created to promote or glorify the shooter," a YouTube spokesperson told Motherboard in a statement. "The volume of related videos uploaded to YouTube in the 24 hours after the attack was unprecedented both in scale and speed, at times as fast as a new upload every second. In response, we took a number of steps, including automatically rejecting any footage of the violence, temporarily suspending the ability to sort or filter searches by upload date, and making sure searches on this event pulled up results from authoritative news sources like The New Zealand Herald or USA Today.”"
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/eve9ke/internal-google-email-christchurch-content-moderation-manifesto?utm_source=mbfb
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Google told Motherboard it had at some point taken the unusual step of automatically rejecting any footage of violence from the attack video, cutting out the process of a human determining the context of the clip. If, say, a news organization was impacted by this change, the outlet could appeal the decision, Google told Motherboard.
“We made the call to basically err on the side of machine intelligence, as opposed to waiting for human review,” YouTube’s Product Officer Neal Mohan told the Washington Post in an article published Monday.
Google also told Motherboard it tweaked the search function to show results from authoritative news sources, and suspended the ability to search for clips by upload date, making it harder for people to find copies of the attack footage.
"Since Friday’s horrific tragedy, we’ve removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of accounts created to promote or glorify the shooter," a YouTube spokesperson told Motherboard in a statement. "The volume of related videos uploaded to YouTube in the 24 hours after the attack was unprecedented both in scale and speed, at times as fast as a new upload every second. In response, we took a number of steps, including automatically rejecting any footage of the violence, temporarily suspending the ability to sort or filter searches by upload date, and making sure searches on this event pulled up results from authoritative news sources like The New Zealand Herald or USA Today.”"
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/eve9ke/internal-google-email-christchurch-content-moderation-manifesto?utm_source=mbfb