YouTube moderators pull right-wing comment channels by mistake

YouTube's new moderation team appears to have mistakenly removed a number of right-wing political channels from the site. The video-streaming giant - owned, like Google, by Alphabet - is currently stepping up its efforts to remove offensive content as the US gun control debate heats up following the Florida high school massacre on 14 February in which ex-student Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people with an AR-15 assault rifle. Over 10,000 new staff were hired in December as the company sought to address fake news and inappropriate clips being uploaded, following criticism of its hosting contentious material without challenge. However, YouTube appears to have encountered teething problems with its new censorship body. Pulling accounts entirely would have marked a major policy change for YouTube - one that it has not publicly announced.