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YouTube will hire 10,000 people to monitor and control violent extremism on the popular video streaming platform, along with curbing content that endangers children.
In an interview with mediaSusan Wojcicki, Chief Executive of the Google-owned video-sharing site said that “bad actors are exploiting” YouTube to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm”.
“We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018,” Wojcicki was quoted as saying.
“We are also taking aggressive action on comments, launching new comment moderation tools and in some cases shutting down comments altogether,” Wojcicki said.
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