Wanted to give an update on our actions since Friday’s horrific tragedy. We’ve removed tens of thousands of videos and terminated hundreds of accounts created to promote or glorify the shooter.
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The volume of related videos uploaded to YouTube in the first 24 hours was unprecedented both in scale and speed, at times as fast as a new upload every second. In response, we took the following steps...
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Automatically rejecting footage of the violence, temporarily suspending the ability to sort or filter searches by upload date (which limited the ability to discover and view violative content while our teams worked to remove it), and...
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Making sure searches on this event pulled up results from authoritative news sources like The New Zealand Herald or USA Today.
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Our teams are continuing to work around the clock to prevent violent and graphic content from spreading, and know there is much more work to do.
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There are hundreds of millions of videos being uploaded, how the hell would you do a better job without compromising the rest of the platform? That’s right 
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