INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Image copyrightReutersYouTube's first three-monthly "enforcement report" reveals the website deleted 8.3 million videos between October and
December 2017 for breaching its community guidelines.The figure does not include videos removed for copyright or legal reasons.Sexually
explicit videos attracted 9.1 million reports from the website's users, while 4.7 million were reported for hateful or abusive content.Most
complaints came from India, the US or Brazil.YouTube said its algorithms had flagged 6.7 million videos that had then been sent to human
moderators and deleted.Of those, 76% had not been watched on YouTube, other than by the moderators.The company told the BBC it stored a data
"fingerprint" of deleted videos so that it could immediately spot if somebody uploaded the same video again.In March, YouTube was criticised
for its failure to remove four propaganda videos posted by the banned UK neo-Nazi group National Action.Giving evidence to the UK's Home
Affairs Committee, the company's counter-terrorism chief, William McCants, blamed human error for the delay in removing the videos.But
Yvette Cooper MP said the evidence given was "disappointing", "weak" and looked like "a failure to even do the basics".The company has also
been criticised for using algorithms to curate its YouTube Kids app for children
Inappropriate videos have repeatedly slipped through the net and appeared on YouTube Kids.Image copyrightGoogleImage caption
YouTube will let people track their reports
The report does not reveal how many inappropriate videos had been reported
or removed from YouTube Kids.YouTube also announced the addition of a "reporting dashboard" to users' accounts, to let them see the status
of any videos they had reported as inappropriate
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