YouTube removed 70,000 content related to the war in Ukraine

YouTube about the war between Russia and Ukraine has removed more than 70,000 videos from the platform. The platform said the removed videos violated its content policies. The company reported that the removed videos contain pro-Russian content.

YouTube, Russia’s largest video platform

YouTube has announced that it has shut down more than 9,000 channels, in addition to more than 70,000 videos, for violating its rules that prohibit creators from denying or trivializing events such as occupation.

YouTube’s chief product officer, Neal Mohan, told The Guardian: “We have a major violence policy, and that applies to things like major violence denial: everything from the Holocaust to Sandy Hook. “Of course what happened in Ukraine is an act of great violence. And we used this policy to take unprecedented action.” said.

in Russia YouTube, the largest video sharing platform, has more than 90 million users in the country. The platform didn’t elaborate on the videos and channels that were removed, but Mohan said most of them had ties to people or entities supported by the Russian government.