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# YouTube employing extra staff to tackle al-Qaeda hate videos
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## YouTube, the video- sharing site owned by Google, is employing additional
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people to help review content before and after it goes live, following a spate
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of al-Qaeda videos which it was forced to take down.
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![Anwar Al-Awlaki America discusses the war on Yemen ][1]
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More than 5,000 postings featuring Awlaki's videos were available on YouTube
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yesterday Photo: YOUTUBE
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[![Emma Barnett][2]][3]
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By [Emma Barnett][4], Digital Media Editor in San Francisco 10:10AM GMT 16 Nov
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2010
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[Follow Emma Barnett on Twitter][5]
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[Comments][6]
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Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, said that the company was "adding
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people to do reviews of videos" as it is very hard algorithmically to monitor
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inappropriate comment. Talking to a small group of journalists at the Web 2.0
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Summit in San Francisco, he went further and said that it was "impossible" to
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monitor 100 per cent of the content the site receives, which is why YouTube
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has to rely upon a mixture of algorithm-driven detection and its community to
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report inappropriate content.
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The question whether YouTube needs to be more proactively edit the video-
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sharing site, to which 35 hours of content are uploaded to per minute, has
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come to the fore following the removal of several al-Qaeda videos which
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promoted violence.
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Two weeks ago YouTube began removing al-Qaeda videos from its website after
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the British Government contacted the White House to complain about the
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material.
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A number of clips by Anwar al-Awlaki, believed to have been the mastermind of
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the cargo bomb plot, were deleted from the video-sharing site. However scores
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more, including incendiary calls to wage war on non-Muslims, remain.
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A Google search for one of the most provocative videos - entitled 44 Ways to
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Support Jihad - on Google brings up more than a hundred results from YouTube.
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Several of the top results have now been blocked although the bulk of the rest
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remain available.
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## Related Articles
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* [YouTube directed MP's attacker to extremist videos][7]
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04 Nov 2010
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* [Stabbed MP backs calls for crackdown on al-Qaeda videos][8]
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04 Nov 2010
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* [YouTube begins removing al-Qaeda videos][9]
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03 Nov 2010
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* [US 'must shut down web hate videos'][10]
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03 Nov 2010
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* [US 'must shut down web hate videos'][11]
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02 Nov 2010
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Users clicking on the deleted content were confronted with a message saying:
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"This video has been removed because its content violated YouTube's terms of
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service."
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A spokesman for YouTube, at the time, said it was looking into the Awlaki
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videos and would "remove all those which break our rules".
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He said the website had "community guidelines that prohibit dangerous or
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illegal activities such as bomb-making, hate speech or incitement to commit
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specific and serious acts of violence".
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## [Google][17]
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* ### [Technology »][18]
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* ### [Social Media »][19]
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* ### [Emma Barnett »][3]
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* ### [Technology News »][20]
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* ### [Internet »][21]
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