YouTube Removes Over 1.9 Million Videos In India: Here's Why

Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Sujata Singh

YouTube removed 1.9 million videos from India from January to March 2023.

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The platform removed 6.48 million globally for rule violations.

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Over 8.7 million channels were taken down for spam violations.

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More than 853 million comments were removed.

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Around 93% of removed videos were flagged by machines, not humans.

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38% of machine-flagged videos were removed before 1 view; 31% had 1-10 views.

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In 2019, YouTube started giving a one-time warning for a first policy violation.

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Resulting in over 80% of warned creators avoiding future policy violations.

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As per YouTube, warned creators can take an 'educational training course'.

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