YouTube has just released its Community Guidelines Enforcement report. The report outlines all actions that the platform took for rule violations, and this one for between April and June.

Like any tech company, YouTube was affected by the pandemic, and has to heavily rely on automated systems to detect potential violations:

Because there are less people actually reviewing the violations, there was content which may have been removed in error which they acknowledged. However they chose to "over-police" instead of letting simply letting more reviewable content through:'



For the crunching numbers, YouTube removed 11,401,696 videos for rule violations, most of them automatically flagged by the system. Majority of the videos removed were child safety concerns, as on the chart:



Meanwhile, US and India saw the most videos removed by region:



These show that YouTube is working harder to remove offensive and non-complying content. Chime in.