Google pledges 10,000 staff to tackle extremist content

Google will dedicate more than 10,000 staff to rooting out violent extremist content on YouTube in 2018, the video sharing website's chief has said. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Susan Wojcicki said some users were exploiting YouTube to "mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm". She said the website, owned by Google, had used "computer-learning" technology that could find extremist videos. More than 150,000 of these videos have been removed since June, she said. In March, the UK government suspended its adverts from YouTube, following concerns they were appearing next to inappropriate content.