LOS ANGELES: YouTube said its hate-speech crackdown resulted in a spike in videos and channels purged during the second quarter of 2019 – although critics say hateful content continues to be a problem on the video platform.
In June, the Google-owned video giant announced an update to its hate-speech policy that banned videos "alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status". It also explicitly prohibited videos espousing conspiracy theories denying that certain violent events took place, like the Holocaust.