YouTube disabled racist comments on its feed during a US Congress hearing on white supremacism, swiftly removing content that violated hate speech guidelines.
The YouTube live stream of a US congressional hearing on white supremacism was forced to disable the comments section after it was overwhelmed by users spouting racist remarks against Jews and other minority groups.
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.Fittingly, PBS just decided to turn comments off on their YouTube stream of the Judicial Committee hearing for white supremacy on social media because it was filled with racist and antisemitic comments.
"Hate speech and violent extremism have no place on YouTube," said Alexandria Walden, a counsel on human rights at Google.She said the company was working to swiftly remove content that violates hate speech, while diminishing the prominence of borderline cases.Facebook switches on live video appOne of the witnesses testifying was Mohammad Abu-Salha, a doctor whose children were killed by a suspected anti-Muslim bigot in 2015.
The Anti-Defamation League, a leading Jewish group focused on hate crimes, said 78 per cent of violent extremist criminal acts in the US last year were by white supremacists.
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