YouTube on cleaning spree

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YouTube says it has removed more than 17,000 channels for hate speech, representing a spike in takedowns since its new hate speech policy went into effect in June. The Google-owned company calls the June update — in which YouTube said it would specifically prohibit videos that glorify Nazi ideology or deny documented violent events like the Holocaust — a "fundamental shift in our policies" that resulted in the takedown of more than 100,000 individual videos during the second quarter of the year. The number of comments removed during the same period doubled to over 500 million, in part due to the new hate speech policy. "We've been removing harmful content since YouTube started, but our investment in this work has accelerated in recent years," the company wrote in a blog post detailing its efforts to clean up its platform through the removal of videos that violate its standards.

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