YouTube announces new measures to curb comments spam and identity impersonation

Creators can no longer hide their subscriber count, limitations are placed on the use of special characters in channel names and an option is introduced for increased strictness in comments moderation.

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Google’s free streaming platform YouTube has a very wide reach and it is being misused by spammers and scammers. The tech giant has now announced new measures to tackle this problem.  

YouTube is introducing an ‘increased strictness’ comment moderation setting for all creators. This option will be available in the community settings menu and after enabling it, YouTube will finger out comments more aggressively. 

Next up, channels will no longer be able to hide their subscriber count. YouTube said that this was a commonly used tactic by scammers to pretend to be a larger and well-established channel. 

Another method used by impersonators was to make their channels look legitimate by using special characters. To prevent this, YouTube is restricting the type and frequency of special characters used in channel names. 

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Avatar of Bapun Bapun Jul 20, 2017 #1

Official YouTube Blog: Bringing new Redirect Method features to YouTube

Over the past years, Jigsaw partnered with Moonshot CVE to conduct extensive research to understand how extremist groups leverage technology to spread their message and recruit new members. From there, they created the Redirect Method, which uses curated video content to redirect people away from violent extremist propaganda and steer them toward video content that confronts extremist messages and debunks its mythology. Today, YouTube is rolling out a feature using the model proven by the Redirect Method: when people search for certain keywords on YouTube, we will display a playlist of videos debunking violent extremist recruiting narratives.

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A ABCDEFGH Aug 10, 2017 #2

Now in 'Popular on Youtube - India' only 1 row is shown
Earlier there were many rows

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