YouTube said the second quarter of 2020 marked the most videos it ever removed in a single quarter for violations of its community guidelines.
The Google-owned video site attributed steps it took to rely more on technology and ease the burden on its content review teams during the pandemic as a major factor behind the high numbers in its community guidelines enforcement report for the quarter.
YouTube wrote in a blog post, “When reckoning with greatly reduced human review capacity due to Covid-19, we were forced to make a choice between potential underenforcement or potential overenforcement.
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