In India, YouTube has removed more than 22 lakh videos of India from its platforms and has also banned lakhs of channels. This is a big action of YouTube.
Let us know that YouTube has submitted the Community Guidelines Enforcement Report from October to December 2023. It has been seen in this report that YouTube has removed videos from many countries around the world from its platform. But the highest number is of Indian videos.
Delete more than 90 lakh videos
According to the information, YouTube has deleted a total of 90,12,232 videos from all over the world due to not following their guidelines. Most of these videos are from India. YouTube has deleted a total of 22,54,902 videos from India. In this list, the second number after India is from Singapore, where 12,43,871 videos have been deleted by YouTube. Apart from these, YouTube’s own country i.e. USA is on the third number, whose 7,88,354 videos have been deleted by the company.
According to data shared by YouTube, 96% of these videos were identified through automatic flagging, which means that these videos were reviewed by a machine rather than a human.
Apart from these, about 3 lakh videos that do not follow YouTube’s guidelines have been identified by a user, about 52 lakh videos have been identified by the institute and only 4 videos have been identified by government agencies.
The company also revealed that about 51.15% of the deleted videos had zero views, 26.43% of the videos had 0-10 views and only 1.25% of the videos had more than 10,000 views.
More than 2 crore channels are also banned
YouTube has also revealed the reasons for removing these videos from its platform. They reported in their report that 39.4% of videos were found to be dangerous or harmful, 32.4% of videos were removed due to child safety concerns and 7.5% of videos were found to be violent or obscene. Other reasons for removing videos include nudity or sexual content, harassment and intimidation, promotion of violence and violent extremism, and more.
Apart from removing videos, YouTube has also removed a total of 20,592,341 channels from its platforms. 92.8% of these channels have been removed for spam, misleading or fraudulent content. At the same time, 4.5% have been removed for nudity or sexual content and 0.9% for spreading false information.
