More than 5,000 postings featuring Awlaki's videos were available on YouTube yesterday Photo: YOUTUBEYouTube Employing Extra Staff To Tackle Al-Qaeda Hate Videos -- The Telegraph
YouTube, the video- sharing site owned by Google, is employing additional people to help review content before and after it goes live, following a spate of al-Qaeda videos which it was forced to take down.
Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, said that the company was “adding people to do reviews of videos” as it is very hard algorithmically to monitor inappropriate comment. Talking to a small group of journalists at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, he went further and said that it was “impossible” to monitor 100 per cent of the content the site receives, which is why YouTube has to rely upon a mixture of algorithm-driven detection and its community to report inappropriate content.
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My Comment: I have trouble seeing them being able to regulate the content that is being uploaded every minute (let alone every day) .... but I wish them luck.
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