YouTube will ban videos promoting racism and discrimination

For example, the Google platform will ban videos that promote or defend the Nazi ideology, which is "inherently discriminatory", as well as the content deny documented violent events, as they were the Holocaust during World War II or the shooting at the US school Sandy Hook in 2012.

In addition to banning videos, YouTube change the recommendation systemto no longer display this type of content as suggestions to attract the attention of the user.

The measure also points to limit access to videos that broadcast misinformationfor example on the miraculous cure of a serious illness or terraplanist theory that the concept of globe is a global conspiracy.

On YouTube, they reported that after applying the change of recommendations to US users the number of visits has been reduced by more than 50% who came to these videos since January of this year.

Google's video platform would thus reduce "the distribution of sensitive content within the limits of what is allowed".

Although the new updated policy came into effect on Wednesday, YouTube recognizes that "It will take a while" for their systems to "start completely" and little by little they will expand coverage in the coming months.

YouTube has acknowledged that some of this content is "of great value" for researchers and non-governmental organizations investigating hate to fight it. They are exploring different options to make it available in the future. "

But "some videos could be maintained as they generate a debate on pending legislation and they aim to condemn and expose hatred or provide an badysis of current events ", so as to remain accessible to the general public.