90,12,232 videos were removed from YouTube worldwide during this period. Of these, 22,54,902 videos were removed in India. This was followed by Singapore (12,43,871 videos) and America (7,88,354 videos). According to data from YouTube, controlled by American company Google, 96 percent of these videos were warned through automated flagging, which means they were detected by a machine. Of these, objections were raised by users for about three lakh videos. Apart from this, about 52,000 videos were reported by organizations. Government agencies had directed to remove only four videos.
YouTube reported that of the removed videos, 51.15 percent had zero views, 26.43 percent had 0-10 views, and about 1.25 percent had more than 10,000 views. Information about the reasons for removing these videos has also been given. Of these, 39.4 percent of the videos were found to be dangerous or harmful, 32.4 percent of the videos were removed due to concerns over the safety of children, and about 7.5 percent of the videos were found to be violent or obscene. Other reasons for removing videos were nudity or sexual content, harassment, promotion of violence and fundamentalism.
Regarding the process of removing videos, YouTube has explained in a blog post, “YouTube relies on its teams around the world to review objectionable videos and remove content that violates our Community Guidelines.” Recently, Facebook and YouTube were warned by the Central Government about deepfakes. Social media platforms including Facebook and YouTube were told that deepfakes and posting content that spreads obscenity or misinformation are banned under the country’s law. This warning was given to these companies in a meeting. Regarding this, Chandrashekhar had said that many social media companies have not updated the terms and conditions for their users despite the rules implemented last year.