Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com)

An anonymous reader quotes CNET: YouTube will take new steps to combat extremist- and terrorist-related videos, parent company Google said Sunday. "While we and others have worked for years to identify and remove content that violates our policies, the uncomfortable truth is that we, as an industry, must acknowledge that more needs to be done. Now," Kent Walker, Google's general counsel, said in an op-ed column in the London-based Financial Times.
Here's CNET's summary of the four new measure Google is implementing:

• Use "more engineering resources to apply our most advanced machine learning research to train new 'content classifiers' to help us more quickly identify and remove such content."
• Expand YouTube's Trusted Flagger program by adding 50 independent, "expert" non-governmental organizations to the 63 groups already part of it. Google will offer grants to fund the groups.
• Take a "tougher stance on videos that do not clearly violate our policies -- for example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content." Such videos will "appear behind a warning" and will not be "monetized, recommended or eligible for comments or user endorsements."
• Expand YouTube's efforts in counter-radicalization. "We are working with Jigsaw to implement the 'redirect method' more broadly. ... This promising approach harnesses the power of targeted online advertising to reach potential Isis recruits, and redirects them towards anti-terrorist videos that can change their minds about joining."

Comments

Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc.

[BarbaraHudson]

When an idea is obviously broken, you will never convince a nut case that it's not true. They are, by definition, acting rationally. In other words, they are delusional. You will never, ever convince them. They must come to that realization themselves. Ignoring their ideas is better than arguing with them for the very reason you gave - they will think that we're working so hard to disprove it that there must be something there. You're just feeding into the delusion.

And no, it's not a win-win. What it proves is that you attack a minority, there are people who will make you rich. That's not a win-win - it's financially motivating bigots.

"Teach the controversy?" So we'll teach about flat earth theories? They're not worth the resources.

Abraham Lincoln had several opportunities to repeal slavery. The motivation was strategic - by emancipating the slaves, this would cripple cotton production as slaves fled to the north. Other countries had already abolished the slave trade - the US was slow on the uptake. Not something to be proud of.

Also, having the Queen of America as titular head of state HAS to be better than Trump. The Queen of Canada does her job well, even signing onto allowing Canada to be independent - hence the title Queen of Canada. It may be the same person, but that's just the way it works. Canada managed to get its' independence without a war.

Also, learn some science. People have known for ages - it was even proven in the 3rd century BC. It was because it was common knowledge that Isabella agreed to finance Columbus. Whether the earth was the center of the universe or not was irrelevant to Columbus' voyage.

It's pretty damn obvious for anyone who isn't blind. A distant ship becomes visible from the top down. That can only happen if the earth is a globe. Didn't they teach anything?

Re:What about Kyle Kullinski, Darvid Pakman, etc.

[Rockoon]

Yes, the left are bigots.

Oh... thats not what you were getting at? Too bad, they are bigots due to the duck rule. Looks like a bigot. Acts like a bigot. Must be a bigot.

'Extremist' = 'white people'

[Anonymous Coward]

Any white person who dares to suggest that they would prefer to live in an all white country will be labelled as an 'extremist'... Despite the fact that MOST white people want to live in all white countries, and we are all being FORCED to live in 'multilcultural' countries, despite never having been asked...