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1/ After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies. It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a *minimum* of 7 days.
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1. Due to the disturbing events that transpired yesterday, and given that the election results have now been certified, starting today *any* channels posting new videos with false claims in violation of our policies will now receive a strike.
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2/ Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump’s channel, as we’ve done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.
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2. Over the last month, we’ve removed thousands of videos which spread misinformation claiming widespread voter fraud changed the result of the 2020 election, including several videos President Trump posted to his channel.
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Find out what it's like to work on @ygofficialblink's 'THE SHOW' — @YouTube's first purchase-to-access online concert!.
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We've had a lot of questions today. clarifying, we apply our policies fairly and without political bias. All creators are held to the same standard.
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4. Channels that receive a strike are temporarily suspended from posting or live streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube. We apply our policies and penalties consistently, regardless of who uploads it.
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3. Like other major policy updates, in our Help Center, we noted that there would be a short grace period after the Dec update & new content that broke our rules would be removed without penalty. The grace period was scheduled to end on Inauguration Day.
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"What do we mean when we invoke the sinister oppression of silence? Why does it cut so deeply to the painful core of so many Asian American experiences?" . @EugeneLeeYang penned this powerful piece to #StopAsianHate. #TalkAsianHate @tryguys .
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2/ In line with that, we are also now blocking access to YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media globally, expanding from across Europe. This change is effective immediately, and we expect our systems to take time to ramp up.
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1/ Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events. We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy.
1/ Today, we began blocking RT & Sputnik’s YouTube channels across Europe. Since Russia began its invasion in Ukraine, we’ve been focused on removing violative content & connecting people to trusted news & information. An overview of the steps we’ve taken the last few days 👇.
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2/ Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline. Now that enough states certified their Presidential election results, we’ll remove any content published today (or anytime after) that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 U.S. Presidential election outcome.
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1/ Starting today, the Donald J. Trump channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content. We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election.
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Wanted to give an update on our actions since Friday’s horrific tragedy. We’ve removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of accounts created to promote or glorify the shooter.
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3/ Since our last update, our teams have now removed more than 1,000 channels and over 15,000 videos for violating not only our hate speech policy, but also our policies around misinformation, graphic content and more.
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European creators sat down for a roundtable discussion about Article 13's unintended consequences. Here’s what @guglielmoscilla @GoGoManTweet @VisualPolitik and others had to say:
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5/ In addition, we recently paused all YouTube ads in Russia. We’ve now extended this to all of the ways to monetize on our platform in Russia.
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4/ Our systems are also connecting people to trusted news sources. So far, our breaking news and top news shelves on our homepage have received more than 17M views in Ukraine.
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6/ Our teams continue to closely monitor the situation, and are ready to take further action. We will continue to share updates as they become available.
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Hate speech has no place on YouTube. We’ve invested heavily in teams and technology dedicated to removing hateful comments / videos. Due to the presence of hateful comments, we disabled comments on the livestream of today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.
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1/ Our goal this election was to connect people to authoritative info, limit harmful misinfo & remove violative content. Subsequently, authoritative news was widely watched & recommended, and since Sept, we removed 8K+ channels for violating our policies.
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1/ Today, we began blocking RT & Sputnik’s YouTube channels across Europe. Since Russia began its invasion in Ukraine, we’ve been focused on removing violative content & connecting people to trusted news & information. An overview of the steps we’ve taken the last few days 👇.
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On June 16, #WorldsLargestLesson Live will be helping young people reimagine the future of health, education & activism. Join the discussions hosted by UN Leaders & global stars, Millie Bobby Brown and @SofiaCarson.
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YouTube creator @theorderlymoney talks with @SusanWojcicki about why financial planning is so important for self care, and what she hopes to take away from the #YouTubeBlack Voices program this year:
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A question we’re often asked is: If you can keep copyrighted material (music, movies, etc), or ISIS and violent extremism content off the platform at scale, why can’t you do the same here?.
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Today, @YouTube is expanding access to our global Data API for academic researchers. This is a first step for the YouTube Researcher Program and we’ll continue to build it out over time. Learn more:
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3/ We’ll also update today our election results info panel, which already surfaced under 200k+ vids and was shown 4.5b+ times. It’ll note that U.S. Presidential election results are certified & link to the 2020 Electoral College Results page by the Office of the Federal Register.
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Today, we’re launching Learn@Home, a new hub where families can have access to free learning resources.
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4/ There’s always more to do. Striking the balance between openness & responsibility is one of our toughest challenges. We’re continuing to make improvements & will apply our learnings from this election, globally.
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2/ This channel will continue to be subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube.
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📢 Major announcements today on how we’re bringing opportunity to more creators:.1) Expanding pathways to join YouTube’s Partner Program (1k subs + 10M Shorts views in 90 days).2) Bringing earlier access to fan funding like Super Chat, memberships through new tier of YPP (1/2).
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The volume of related videos uploaded to YouTube in the first 24 hours was unprecedented both in scale and speed, at times as fast as a new upload every second. In response, we took the following steps. .
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Incredible to see the momentum of #TeamTrees and the power of the @YouTube creator community raising money for @arborday. I'm donating 200k trees to help #TeamTrees reach 20M trees 🌲Thanks to @MarkRober for your leadership!
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Automatically rejecting footage of the violence, temporarily suspending the ability to sort or filter searches by upload date (which limited the ability to discover and view violative content while our teams worked to remove it), and. .
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Our teams are continuing to work around the clock to prevent violent and graphic content from spreading, and know there is much more work to do.
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1/3 of the way there!.
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Making sure searches on this event pulled up results from authoritative news sources like The New Zealand Herald or USA Today.
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We’re taking additional steps to tackle hate on YouTube. Here are the ways we’re doing it:
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2/ We paused monetization and significantly limited recommendations for Russian state-funded media channels. Both actions are global & indefinite.
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The #CopyrightDirective would hurt small-scale creatives and startups who would be unable to comply with a regulatory model designed for the era of the printing press. #EU reps must stand up for our digital future #SaveYourInternet
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@StringReveals @TeamYouTube @YouTube The String Reveals channel was removed for circumvention of our 3-strikes policy. Full details here: When a channel receives a first strike, the creator may not upload content for 7 days. They also cannot use another channel to get around these.
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3/ Our Trust & Safety team has worked to quickly remove violative content. We’ve removed hundreds of channels & thousands of videos for violating our Community Guidelines, including our policies around deceptive practices and misinformation.
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.@HarryShumJr and @wongfupro band together for @consciouskidlib's newly-launched "AAPI Storytime" program!.
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Here’s an update on the work we’re doing behind-the-scenes to ⬆️ authoritative voices + ⬇️ the spread of borderline content and harmful misinfo. This is the 2nd installment in our “4 Rs” series:
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@CanticosWorld creates bilingual nursery rhymes & songs for kids. They're part of a YouTube Creator Economy which contributed over $35B to the US GDP and supported more than 390K full-time equivalent jobs in 2022. Read the full report by Oxford Economics:
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4/ When people search for topics on Russia and Ukraine, our systems prominently surface authoritative news content in both our Top News and Breaking News shelves, and will continue to as needed.
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@Max_Fisher We know our systems are far from perfect, so we’re constantly making improvements. But we had a team across product and engineering try to reproduce the recommendation results found by the University of Minas Gerais and Harvard’s researchers, and it was unable to do so.
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5/ We also display info panels underneath videos from news publishers with gov’t funding. Videos from RT and other Russian state media channels began showing this label as early as 2018, giving context that the channel is “funded in whole or in part by the Russian government.”.
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6/ Our teams continue to closely monitor the situation, and we will continue to share updates as they become available.
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1/ Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe abortion methods or promotes false claims about abortion safety under our medical misinformation policies.
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(1/3) Announcing today a $13M grant from @Google and @YouTube for @factchecknet to launch a Global Fact Check Fund. The new fund supports a network of 135 fact checkers covering 80+ languages, and will help scale operations and bring in new digital tools:
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The full schedule of #BeautyFest is out!. ft. @DerekBlasberg @selenagomez @patrickstarrr @aasian @MichellePhan @noahbeck @AnnaAkana @skincarebyhyram and so many more.
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@dannysullivan @mhbergen @minimaxir @YouTube 1/ Thanks for flagging. Sometimes, when a search is performed, there are a lot of fresh results. Our algorithms will, in some instances (when the query is news related), trigger to surface more authoritative sources.
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Happy International Women's Day! These are just a few of the @YouTube women who inspire us: @rachana_ranade @mmmEnglish @refikabirgul @NikkieTutorials @lucybellaearl @TeraBriteGames @cutegirlhair @tatemcrae @NathaliaArcuri
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We want everyone to have access to authoritative content during this trying time, so we’re launching a COVID-19 news shelf on our homepage in 16 countries. We’ll expand to more countries, as well.
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WRT Joe Rogan/Pres.Trump interview and YT search results: Since airing Friday, the interview has generated over 34 million views on YouTube and counting, making it Joe Rogan’s most viewed episode of the year. For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t.
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NEW from our @YouTube Q2 22 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report out today: We’re reporting 122k videos removed for violating our misinfo policies - a new breakout metric to give more context to our work combatting violative misinfo. More here:
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We’re proud to share that the GNI @YouTube innovation funding will support 87 news projects across 23 countries, helping news organizations strengthen their online video capabilities and storytelling. Learn more here:
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.@KevOnStage, class of #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund 2020, talks candidly about his experiences as a creator with @SusanWojcicki. Watch the trailer:
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Our Community Guidelines have always had policies against videos that encourage dangerous or illegal activities, including those that instruct users how to hack or phish others -- this is not a new policy. (1/2).
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Want to see our first-ever @YouTube House, featuring @TheFitMarshall @LaurasKitchen @BraveWilderness? Head on over:
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Videos with educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic (EDSA) value might be allowed to stay on YouTube, despite violating our policies. These decisions are nuanced, so here are a few examples of how we make them:
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We’re excited to announce nearly 100 participants from around the world joining our innovation programs for independent journalists and digital-first newsrooms. Learn more about the programs and how YouTube is supporting the future of news:.
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And there’s also a constant flow of new footage, and countless variations of known footage uploaded in the hours immediately after an event. These factors present a significant challenge, but we are continually working to improve our detection systems.
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@dannysullivan @mhbergen @minimaxir @YouTube 2/ In this specific case, within minutes, videos from news sources started rising to the top. These are all part of the changes we've made to our algorithm to combat misinformation.
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3) Bringing ad rev sharing to Shorts!.4) Giving creators a way to easily license music or share ad rev w/music rights holders .More here: .(2/2).
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@TaylorLorenz After careful review, we are removing livestreams that violate our Community Guidelines. We have established policies prohibiting spam, deceptive practices & scams, and we continue to be vigilant with regards to election-related content in the lead-up and post-election period.
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Today, we're streamlining our medical misinformation policies and starting to remove content promoting harmful cancer treatments. Learn more about our long-term vision for approaching medical misinformation on the platform →
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Our tools require reference files to work effectively: studios, record labels, and publishers provide those reference files to us in advance. This lets us take them down at scale.
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YouTube Originals adds "Super Sema" to it's new slate of kids programming, coming March 8!.
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However, every breaking news event is unique and there are no reference files provided in advance.
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🧵We dug into the data on how people tuned into YouTube for the latest U.S. elections news, commentary, and interviews –.
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We appreciate the questions about this invu with @nealmohan and @kevinroose. To be clear: we know there’s work to be done on recommendations and we are making changes because we want to prevent the spread of misinformation, hate, conspiracy, etc.
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Many violent extremist groups, like ISIS, use common footage and imagery. These can also be signals for our detection systems that help us to remove content at scale.
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Former teacher Brianna Rapini uses her teaching experience to create science videos with her sister on their YouTube channel @AmoebaSisters. Read how teachers are using videos like the Amoeba Sisters’ to help engage students in their classrooms in this article in @WashingtonPost.
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#YouTubeShorts creator @katiefeeneyy gives the inside scoop on her big weekend at the Big Game:.
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For the first time, we’re taking you behind-the-scenes of our four guiding principles of responsibility, or what we call the "four Rs":. 1. Remove .2. Raise.3. Reward.4. Reduce. This first installment in our series will focus on removing harmful content:
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@GoStudyHall, an online education initiative from YouTube’s partnership with @ASU and @TheCrashCourse, gives prospective university students the potential to earn up to a year of college credit. Read in @washingtonpost how YouTube is helping to make education more accessible.
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There are exceptions for videos if the primary purpose is educational, documentary, scientific or artistic. We enforce this policy in the same way we do all our policies and users can appeal if they feel a video has been removed mistakenly. (2/2).
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This appears to be an error in our enforcement sys & we're looking into it. People can report suspected issues to troubleshoot errors & help us make product improvements. This isn't a new policy or result of a policy change. Appreciate you reporting it.
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We’re investing $7M in two new journalism programs as part of our longstanding work to support the future of news: the Creator Program for Independent Journalists and the Sustainability Lab for Digital-First Newsrooms. Applications are open until May 31.
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Our blog has a whole new destination! . Get your latest YouTube news at We’re doing more creator profiles, more culture & trends stories, and more behind-the-scenes.
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3/ We’re also launching an information panel that provides viewers with context and information from local and global health authorities under abortion-related videos and above relevant search results.
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(1/5) With the midterms wrapped up, we’re releasing metrics into our work connecting people to high-quality news and info. We removed 10K+ videos that violated our policies & 85%+ of recs on midterms topics came from auth news sources. More below & here:
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1/ Today, we’re announcing a new approach for content related to eating disorders. We want to make sure YouTube continues to be a space for essential conversations & information about mental health, while also protecting viewers from harmful content:.
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Happy #NationalInternDay 🎉! We're celebrating by bragging about our amazing @YouTube BOLD interns. We're grateful they picked us this summer.
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@mhbergen Like other companies, we're allowing these videos because discussion of election results & the process of counting votes is allowed on YT. These videos are not being surfaced or recommended in any prominent way.
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Lyor Cohen, @YouTube's Global Head of Music, says he supports copyright reform, but believes Article 13 is flawed. His reasons in today's @musicbizworld op-ed:
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We're announcing three new changes to give you more control over what videos appear on your homepage and Up Next suggestions ➡️
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In @SusanWojcicki's @FT op-ed today, she wrote about Article 13's "unintended consequences" and its impact on the creator economy. Here's the breakdown in numbers:
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Today, we’re expanding our fact check information panels to the U.S. During fast-moving news cycles, these panels will highlight fact-checked articles above search results, so viewers can make their own informed decision about claims made in the news.
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Looking for ways to enhance learning outside the classroom? Check out this @washingtonpost article on how teens are using YouTube to explore their passions and prepare for college.
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Today, we’re updating our medical misinformation policies to address content about currently administered vaccines that are approved and confirmed to be safe and effective by health authorities:
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