YouTube removes over 2.2 mn videos in India over community norm violation in Oct-Dec

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New Delhi, Mar 26 (PTI) YouTube removed over 2.25 million videos in India between October and December 2023 for the violation of its community guidelines, with the country topping the list of video takedowns ahead of nations like the US and Russia...

Indonesia ranked fourth (770,157), while for Russia the number of video takedowns stood at 516,629, as per YouTubes Community Guidelines Enforcement report that provides global data on the flags YouTube receives and how the Google-owned platform enforces policies...

Globally, during the period (Q4 2023) YouTube removed over 9 million videos for falling foul of its community norms..

The latest report showed that between October and December 2023, over 2.25 million videos (2,254,902) were removed in India for violating YouTubes community guidelines..

Globally, 20.5 million (20,592,341) channels were removed by YouTube for violating its community guidelines during the quarter ended in December 2023...

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