Following years of controversy over whether YouTube was making extremist content too easily available,the Google-owned Internet video giant on Thursday announced novel steps to “tackle hate.”In a post on its official blog, YouTube announced several update. It will remove more hateful and supremacist content, or it will reduce borderline content,” such as videos promoting flat Earth theories or those pushing bogus medical cures, while promoting more authoritative content.
YouTube, and from now on,will be “specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, or gender,race, caste, and religion,sexual orientation or veteran status,” including videos that glorify Nazi ideology, and as well as those arguing that such “well-documented events as the Holocaust or the Sandy Hook massacre did not bewitch place.
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Source: inquisitr.com