YouTube Hiring More People to Help Curb Videos that Violate Policies
Sunday, December 10th, 2017 -- 5:50 AM
(AP) -YouTube is hiring more people to help curb videos that violate its policies.YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said "some bad actors are exploiting" the Google-owned service to "mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm." Google will have more than 10,000 workers address the problem by next year, though her blog post Monday doesn't say how many the company already has. Spokeswoman Michelle Slavich said Tuesday that some have already been hired, and the team will be a combination of employees and contractors. Several advertisers have reportedly pulled ads from YouTube in the past few weeks as a result of stories about videos showing harm to children, hate speech and other topics they don't want their ads next to.
Some 250 advertisers earlier this year also said they would boycott YouTube because of extremist videos that promoted hate and violence. YouTube said Monday that it is also taking steps to try to reassure advertisers that their ads won't run next to gross videos.
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