Our ongoing work to tackle hate

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Our ongoing work to tackle hate

URL

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/our-ongoing-work-to-tackle-hate/

Date de publication

05-juin-19

Date de consultation

2024-09-25

Mots-clés

Hate speech, policy, announcement

Verbatims affectifs

We review our policies on an ongoing basis to make sure we are drawing the line in the right place: In 2018 alone, we made more than 30 policy updates. One of the most complex and constantly evolving areas we deal with is hate speech. We’ve been taking a close look at our approach towards hateful content in consultation with dozens of experts in subjects like violent extremism, supremacism, civil rights, and free speech. Based on those learnings, we are making several updates:
Removing more hateful and supremacist content from YouTube

YouTube has always had rules of the road, including a longstanding policy against hate speech. In 2017, we introduced a tougher stance towards videos with supremacist content, including limiting recommendations and features like comments and the ability to share the video. This step dramatically reduced views to these videos (on average 80%). Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.

We recognize some of this content has value to researchers and NGOs looking to understand hate in order to combat it, and we are exploring options to make it available to them in the future. And as always, context matters, so some videos could remain up because they discuss topics like pending legislation, aim to condemn or expose hate, or provide analysis of current events.

We have longstanding advertiser-friendly guidelines that prohibit ads from running on videos that include hateful content and we enforce these rigorously. And in order to protect our ecosystem of creators, advertisers and viewers, we tightened our advertising criteria in 2017. In the case of hate speech, we are strengthening enforcement of our existing YouTube Partner Program policies.

The openness of YouTube’s platform has helped creativity and access to information thrive. It’s our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence. We are committed to taking the steps needed to live up to this responsibility today, tomorrow and in the years to come.

Thème général (contenu, image, etc.)

Les actions de YT face au hateful content

Recommandations et bonnes pratiques

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Effets attendus de ces recommandations ou objectifs qu’elles permettent d’atteindre

Avoir un environnement YouTube exempt de discours haineux - "build a safe community"

Type d'utilisation de l'émotion (Prescription/autodéfinition)

Autodéfinition

Thèmes

Encadrer l'expression des émotions

Catégorie

Modérer les contenus haineux

Cas/exemples/illustrations

This would include, for example, videos that promote or glorify Nazi ideology, which is inherently discriminatory. Finally, we will remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place.

Contraintes

Respecter les guidelines

Interdictions

Aller contre les guidelines

Sanctions

Channels that repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies will be suspended from the YouTube Partner program, meaning they can’t run ads on their channel or use other monetization features like Super Chat.

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