YouTube says rule-breaking videos get very few views
YouTube on Tuesday said rule-breaking videos get looked at very little before being removed by the Google-owned platform.
YouTube added "Violative View Rate" to its quarterly transparency report to indicate what percentage of views come from content that violates its policies, and said the figure was a small fraction of a per cent in the final three months of last year.
"It's a very low number," YouTube director of trust and safety Jennifer O'Connor said while briefing journalists.
"Of course we want it to be lower, and that's what my team works day in and day out to try to do."
The rate derived by sampling YouTube content indicated that violating content accounted for 16 to 18 of every 10,000 views on the platform, where the biggest category for rule-breaking is typically spam, O'Connor said.
YouTube did not provide a breakdown of which rules were being violated by videos involved in the calculation.
Automated systems at YouTube detect 94 per cent of violating content flagged, removing 75 per cent of it before a video gets 10 views, according to the streaming platform.
Internal teams at YouTube have used the VVR as a metric for their efforts since 2017, and it has fallen some...