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YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash
Insiders have shared YouTube’s playbook for handling the Gaza crisis. They argue that it shows inconsistent enforcement.
At YouTube, algorithms and about 20,000 people working on moderation are meant to remove anything that promotes war, violence, harassment, or hate speech regardless of who posted the video, said Pedro Pina, the platform’s vice president for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, in a recent talk. YouTube has long removed music videos calling for deadly violence against racial, religious, and ethnic groups, including a Hebrew song purportedly from 2017 in which an unknown artist sings, "I'll cleanse my country of every Jew,” according to a copy that remains available for educational purposes. The lyrics state, by some interpretations, “every dog’s day will come” while referring to fashion model Bella Hadid, pop singer Dua Lipa, and former porn star Mia Khalifa —all of whom have called Israel’s campaign genocidal.
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