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YouTube admits mistakenly designating video about antisemitism as 'hate speech' - again

Journalist Tom Gross's upload of recent BBC Panorama documentary on Labour antisemitism taken down for violating the site's rules on extremist content

July 24, 2019 10:37
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YouTube’s ongoing issues in misidentifying hate speech were highlighted once more as it wrongly removed the BBC’s Panorama exposé of Labour’s antisemitism crisis for violating its policy on extremist content.

A spokesman for YouTube admitted the tech giant had “mistakenly removed” Tom Gross’s upload, saying that it usually makes exceptions for content with “sufficient educational, documentary, news, scientific or artistic value”.

Mr Gross, a freelance journalist who has served as Jerusalem correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, unsuccessfully appealed its removal.

But after being contacted by the JC, YouTube reinstated the video.