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YouTube's New Moderators Mistakenly Pull Right-Wing Channels
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Video site’s human screening stumbles in a major early test
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Episode shows challenge of spotting and removing content
Guns in America
YouTube’s new moderators, brought in to spot fake, misleading and extreme videos, stumbled in one of their first major tests, mistakenly removing some clips and channels in the midst of a nationwide debate on gun control.
The Google division said in December it would assign more than 10,000 people to moderate content after a year of scandals over fake and inappropriate content on the world’s largest video site.