Every hour, YouTube deletes nearly 2,000 channels and those deletions are meant to keep out spam, misinformation, financial scams, nudity, hate speech and other material that it says violates its policies
Inside the offices the news group Novara Media in London on Oct. 27, 2021, which which had its YouTube channel removed without warning by the video platform. YouTube deletes nearly 2,000 channels every hour in its battle against misinformation, financial scams, nudity, hate speech and other material that it says violates its policies. But the rules are opaque and sometimes arbitrarily, or mistakenly, enforced.
LONDON — The email subject line that arrived at 10:19 a.m. Tuesday carried some of the worst information a small online news outlet can receive: “Novara Media we have removed your channel from YouTube.”
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