Wednesday, June 11, 2025 – 18:31 Wib
Yakarta, alive -Youtube secretly loosen the video moderation rules a few weeks before Donald Trump was appointed president of the United States (USA) for the second time, according to the New York Times report.
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The new rule encourages a moderator from the site not to eliminate videos that violate the YouTube Ethics Code, which prohibits nakedness, graphic violence, hate speech and wrong information, if the video is considered for the public interest.
Previously, YouTube will continue to show videos that you consider for the public interest if you only consider a quarter of the content to violate the rules; Now, half of the video content can still break the rules and still transmit.
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YouTube considers the content that implies “choices, ideology, movements, races, gender, sexuality, abortion, immigration, censorship and other issues” as part of the public interest, according to the New York Times, which sees training material where the change is described.
YouTube, owned by Alphabet, the Google parent company, made changes in mid -December 2024 through the introduction of training materials that were updated to the moderator.
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Similarly, Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, finished an examination of facts on social burdens in January 2025, the same month that Trump entered the White House.
Many Republicans, including Donald Trump, have requested a giant technology to minimize or end moderation in their user content.
X finished the data exam after Elon Musk bought the social media site in 2022, applying registration characteristics of the community of many people.
While X and goal openly announced that they ended or minimized moderation, YouTube did not.
The New York Times also cited some examples of new YouTube policies. One of them is a 43 -minute video about a cabinet member designated by Donald Trump that is still transmitted despite insults to a transgender.
The other is a South Korean video that is not eliminated even though a commentator discusses an imaginary scenario that involves a politician who was killed with guillotine.
YouTube decided to continue showing the video because “Guillotine execution is not possible.”
When comments were requested, YouTube representatives declared that the moderator eliminated 192,856 videos in the first quarter of this year, which was actually a 22 percent increase from year to year (Yoy).
In addition, YouTube spokeswoman Nicole Bell, directed her concerns that were worried about visiting the transparency report on her community’s guidelines to obtain more detailed information and clarity about changes in politics.
“We regularly update the guidelines of our community to adapt to the content that we see on YouTube. For example, earlier this year, we stop the remaining COVID-19 policies and add a new protection related to the content of gambling. We regularly update the guidelines for this exception to reflect the type of discussion and content (for example, the emergence of the appearance of long content of the long content) The comments of our global community of our global creation community in you.
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While X and goal openly announced that they ended or minimized moderation, YouTube did not.
