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90,12,232 videos were removed from YouTube worldwide during this period. Out of these, 22,54,902 videos were removed in India. It was followed by Singapore (12,43,871 videos) and America (7,88,354 videos). The American company Google According to data from YouTube, which is controlled by the Government of India, 96 percent of these videos were warned through automated flagging, which means that they were detected by a machine. Of these, about three lakh videos were objected to by users. Apart from this, about 52,000 videos were reported by organizations. Government agencies had ordered the removal of only four videos.
YouTube said that 51.15 percent of the videos removed had zero views, 26.43 percent had 0-10 views and about 1.25 percent had more than 10,000 views. The reasons for removing these videos have also been given. Of these, 39.4 percent videos were found to be dangerous or harmful, 32.4 percent videos were removed due to concerns about the safety of children and about 7.5 percent videos were found to be violent or pornographic. Other reasons for removing videos were nudity or sexual content, harassment, promotion of violence and radicalism.
Regarding the process of removing videos, YouTube has said in a blog post, “YouTube relies on its teams around the world to review objectionable videos and remove content that violates our community guidelines.” Recently, Facebook and YouTube were warned by the central government about deepfakes. Social media platforms including Facebook and YouTube were told that posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation is prohibited under the country’s law. In a meeting, these Companies This warning was given on 20 November 2017. Regarding this, Chandrashekhar had said that many social media companies have not updated the terms and conditions for their users despite the rules implemented last year.
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