it was reported that YouTube, the streaming media service of Alphabet’s Google company, disclosed the latest information on Tuesday, stating that about 1.6 million views out of every 1 billion views on the YouTube website came from someone who violated its content policy. Video, this ratio is roughly the same as a year ago.
YouTube said that since the first time it began tracking the so-called “violative view rate” (“VVR”) in the fourth quarter of 2017, this rate has dropped by more than 70%, indicating that the company is preventing hate speech and being caught. Progress has been made on the issue of other video dissemination that it regards as dangerous.
Critics have consistently accused YouTube and other social media companies of inadequate supervision, allowing false and hate speech to spread, which incited deadly violence like the January attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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According to data as of 2020, YouTube’s VVR has remained stable for the past six quarters. The company’s product director Jennifer O’Connor (Jennifer O’Connor) said that she hopes that the quarterly release of such estimates will “continue to hold us accountable.”
She also said that just like other “law enforcement” data released by YouTube, this ratio may fluctuate with the development of its technology, rules, and users. For example, YouTube deleted nearly 171,000 channels involving hate speech in the fourth quarter of last year, three times the number in the previous quarter, and attributed this jump to improvements in detection technology.
VVR involves all violations of YouTube policies. This data is calculated through video sampling and does not include user comments on the video.
Facebook also released similar estimates but ruled out bullying, spam and other violations. Facebook stated that overall, out of every 1 billion page views in the fourth quarter of last year, at least 15 million involved content that violated the company’s regulations on adult nudity and sexual behavior, violent or image material, and hates speech. In order to refute the criticism of “self-grading,” Facebook said last year that the company would hire an external auditor to evaluate the information it discloses. O’Connor Monday refused to promise that YouTube will hire an external auditor, but said it “will not rule out this possibility.”
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