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    Google will enlist 10,000 employees to moderate YouTube videos

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    12.05.2017

    YouTube had its hands full lately, dealing with disturbing channels and videos masquerading as family-friendly offerings. Now, YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki has explained how the platform plans to keep a closer eye on the videos it hosts going forward by applying the lessons it learned fighting violent extremism content. Wojcicki says the company has begun training its algorithms to improve child safety on the platform and to be better at detecting hate speech. To be able to teach its algorithms which videos need to be removed and which can stay, though, it needs more people's help. That's why it aims to appoint as many as 10,000 people across Google to review content that might violate its policies.