YouTube under fire after neo-Nazi and Taliban videos found on site despite being flagged

in technology •  7 years ago 

Extremist footage posted by  neo-Nazis remains online despite pledges from the world’s largest internet companies to remove it, a study has found.Research carried out by the Henry Jackson Society think-tank found hundreds of extremist videos are available on YouTube, including many that have already been flagged to monitors. 

The Henry Jack Society found  that 61 reported far-right videos and 60 Islamist videos were still online on YouTube, although dozens of videos that had been flagged were removed. 

Through new use of technology ,the majority of videos was removed for   violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag. We’re doing more every day to tackle these complex issues.” 

Other mini stream platform including Google  , Twitter and Facebook have recently been found to contain extremist links and posts, with analysts comparing the continuing battle to stop removed content re-appearing elsewhere to a game of “whack-a-mole”. 


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