YouTube says it will ban supremacist content and remove videos that deny well-documented atrocities, like the Holocaust and the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school
New York . The company says it will be removing hundreds of thousands of videos that hadn't previously been considered in violation of its rules.
The move comes as the the video service, owned by Google, faces increasing scrutiny for hosting extreme and divisive content. In a blog post Wednesday, YouTube said it was prohibiting"videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.
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