YouTube discloses prevalence of rule-breaking videos for the first time

About 1.6 million views on YouTube out of every 1 billion are of a video that violates its content policies, the world’s largest video platform owned by Alphabet Inc.’s Google said in a new disclosure on Tuesday.
The “violative view rate” (VVR) has dropped over 70% since it was first tracked in the fourth quarter of 2017, YouTube said, and demonstrates its progress in blocking hate speech and other videos it considers dangerous before they go viral.
Critics have said inadequate policing by YouTube and other social media companies enables false and hateful rhetoric to spread, fomenting deadly violence such as the US Capitol attack in January.