Content Policies & Community Guidelines

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src="/web/20231006151508im_/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/static/images/eyebrow-underline.png" role="presentation"> </small> <h1> <span class="lb-font-weight-600 lb-font-gamma-headline"> How does YouTube manage harmful content? </span> </h1> <div class="lb-font-body"> <p class="md md-p">YouTube is an open video platform where anyone can upload a video and share it with the world. With this openness comes incredible opportunities, as well as challenges – which is why we’re always working to balance creative expression with our responsibility to protect the community from harmful content. At the heart of our approach are the four Rs: we Remove content that violates our policies as quickly as possible, Reduce the spread of harmful misinformation and content that brushes up against our policy lines, Raise up authoritative sources when people are looking for news and information, and Reward trusted, eligible Creators and artists.</p> </div> </div> <div class="lb-grid__cell lb-grid__cell--span-4 lb-grid__cell--sm-span-12 ytr-flex-col ytr-flex-col--vert-center ytr-hero__image-wrapper"> <img class="ytr-hero__image" src="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vmnPN1J4RMyb--mxyzC6JcJ_vDN_UG8wX4ytU-Jy9pucJwHAPnlynaS9I0WJzuGeg3E4cGksWfz0C3SHkVZbRE_-Kux4JJS3dHlL3w=v3-s20-fblur=1,20" srcset="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vmnPN1J4RMyb--mxyzC6JcJ_vDN_UG8wX4ytU-Jy9pucJwHAPnlynaS9I0WJzuGeg3E4cGksWfz0C3SHkVZbRE_-Kux4JJS3dHlL3w=v1-s560 560w, http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vmnPN1J4RMyb--mxyzC6JcJ_vDN_UG8wX4ytU-Jy9pucJwHAPnlynaS9I0WJzuGeg3E4cGksWfz0C3SHkVZbRE_-Kux4JJS3dHlL3w=v1-s840 840w, http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508im_/https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vmnPN1J4RMyb--mxyzC6JcJ_vDN_UG8wX4ytU-Jy9pucJwHAPnlynaS9I0WJzuGeg3E4cGksWfz0C3SHkVZbRE_-Kux4JJS3dHlL3w=v0-s1680 1680w" alt="Managing harmful content" aria-hidden="false"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="ytr-section ytr-section--article" data-lb-auto-init="ArticlePage"> <div class="ytr-section__window"> <div class="lb-grid ytr-article"> <div class="lb-grid__cell lb-grid__cell--md-span-12 lb-grid__cell--lg-span-4"> <ul class="ytr-article__tabs ytr-js-tabs"> <li class="ytr-article__tabs-tab-wrapper"> <a href="#remove" class="lb-font-body lb-font--no-crop lb-font-color-grey5 ytr-article__tabs-tab ytr-js-tab"> Remove </a> </li> <li class="ytr-article__tabs-tab-wrapper"> <a href="#reduce" class="lb-font-body lb-font--no-crop lb-font-color-grey5 ytr-article__tabs-tab ytr-js-tab"> Reduce </a> </li> <li class="ytr-article__tabs-tab-wrapper"> <a href="#raise" class="lb-font-body lb-font--no-crop lb-font-color-grey5 ytr-article__tabs-tab ytr-js-tab"> Raise </a> </li> <li class="ytr-article__tabs-tab-wrapper"> <a href="#reward" class="lb-font-body lb-font--no-crop lb-font-color-grey5 ytr-article__tabs-tab ytr-js-tab"> Reward </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="lb-grid__cell lb-grid__cell--md-offset-1-span-10 lb-grid__cell--lg-offset-4-span-8 ytr-article__content-wrapper"> <div class="ytr-article__content ytr-js-tabs-content-block lb-hide" id="remove"> <h2 class="md md-h2">How does YouTube remove harmful content?</h2> <p class="md md-p">Our commitment to responsibility starts with our <a class="md md-a" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9288567" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Community Guidelines</a>. These policies are designed to ensure our community stays protected. They set out what’s allowed and not allowed on YouTube, and apply to all types of content on our platform, including videos, comments, links, and thumbnails. Our policies cover areas such as hate speech, harassment, child safety, and violent extremism amongst others.</p> <p class="md md-p">Each of our policies is developed in partnership with a wide range of external industry and policy experts, as well as YouTube Creators, and we systematically review our policies to make sure that they are current. Examples include the major updates to our hate speech and harassment policies in 2019; the rollout of our 2020 policy to address harmful conspiracy theory content; and our COVID-19 medical misinformation policy, which has evolved throughout the course of the pandemic. </p> <p class="md md-p">We remove content that violates our policies as quickly as possible, using a combination of people and machine learning to detect potentially problematic content on a massive scale. In addition, we rely on the YouTube community as well as experts in our Trusted Flagger program to help us spot potentially problematic content by reporting it directly to us. We also go to great lengths to make sure content that violates our policies isn’t widely viewed, or even viewed at all, before it’s removed. Our automated flagging systems help us detect and review content even before it’s seen by our community. </p> <p class="md md-p">Once such content is identified, human content reviewers evaluate whether it violates our policies. If it does, we remove the content and use it to train our machines for better coverage in the future. Our content reviewers also protect content that has a clear educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic [EDSA] purpose. </p> <p class="md md-p" md-node-state="empty"><div class="ytr-resources lb-padding-top-s lb-margin-top-m lb-margin-bottom-m"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid__cell ytr-resources-grid__cell--span-2"> <h3 class="lb-margin-bottom-xs"> <span class="lb-font-weight-600 lb-font-subhead"> Resources </span> </h3> <ul> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/the-four-rs-of-responsibility-remove/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Learn more about the efforts that support YouTube’s “Remove” principle <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2v-7h-2v7zM14 3v2h3.59l-9.83 9.83 1.41 1.41L19 6.41V10h2V3h-7z"/></svg> </a> </div> </li> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9288567?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Read YouTube’s Community Guidelines <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2v-7h-2v7zM14 3v2h3.59l-9.83 9.83 1.41 1.41L19 6.41V10h2V3h-7z"/></svg> </a> </div> </li> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/look-how-we-treat-educational-documentary-scientific-and-artistic-content-youtube/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Learn more about how we treat EDSA content on YouTube <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2v-7h-2v7zM14 3v2h3.59l-9.83 9.83 1.41 1.41L19 6.41V10h2V3h-7z"/></svg> </a> </div> </li> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://transparencyreport.google.com/youtube-policy/removals?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Learn more about quarterly content removals in our Community Guidelines Enforcement Report <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2v-7h-2v7zM14 3v2h3.59l-9.83 9.83 1.41 1.41L19 6.41V10h2V3h-7z"/></svg> </a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></p> </div> <div class="ytr-article__content ytr-js-tabs-content-block lb-hide" id="reduce"> <h2 class="md md-h2">How does YouTube reduce the spread of harmful misinformation and borderline content?</h2> <p class="md md-p">While our Community Guidelines set the rules of the road for content on YouTube, there will always be content that brushes up against our policies, but doesn’t quite cross the line. This borderline content represents a fraction of 1% of what’s watched on YouTube. That said, even a fraction of a percent is too much. </p> <p class="md md-p">So in 2019, we announced changes to our recommendation systems to reduce the spread of borderline content, resulting in a 70% drop in watchtime on non subscribed, recommended content in the US that year. We also saw a drop in watchtime of borderline content coming from recommendations in other markets. And as of March 2021, we have rolled out changes to our recommendation system to reduce borderline content in every market where we operate. We are committed to continuing our work to reduce recommendations of borderline content. While algorithmic changes take time to ramp up and you might see consumption of borderline content go up and down, our goal is to keep views of non subscribed, recommended borderline content below 0.5%.</p> <p class="md md-p" md-node-state="empty"><div class="ytr-resources lb-padding-top-s lb-margin-top-m lb-margin-bottom-m"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid__cell ytr-resources-grid__cell--span-2"> <h3 class="lb-margin-bottom-xs"> <span class="lb-font-weight-600 lb-font-subhead"> Resources </span> </h3> <ul> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/the-four-rs-of-responsibility-raise-and-reduce" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Learn more about the efforts that support YouTube’s “Reduce” principle <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2v-7h-2v7zM14 3v2h3.59l-9.83 9.83 1.41 1.41L19 6.41V10h2V3h-7z"/></svg> </a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></p> </div> <div class="ytr-article__content ytr-js-tabs-content-block lb-hide" id="raise"> <h2 class="md md-h2">How does YouTube raise authoritative content?</h2> <p class="md md-p">There are a lot of signals - such as relevance and popularity - that matter in determining what videos you typically see in YouTube search and recommendations. However, when it comes to topics such as news, politics, medical, and scientific information, we know there is no substitute for authoritativeness. That’s why we have introduced a range of features to tackle this challenge holistically. </p> <p class="md md-p">For example, in search results and recommended videos, we raise authoritative voices for newsworthy events and topics prone to misinformation. We also have dedicated product features such as the Breaking News shelf and Top News shelf that feature relevant videos from authoritative news sources. </p> <p class="md md-p">Context is critical when evaluating information, so we also provide information panels that feature text-based information alongside certain search results and videos to help you make your own decisions about the content that you find on YouTube.</p> <p class="md md-p" md-node-state="empty"><div class="ytr-resources lb-padding-top-s lb-margin-top-m lb-margin-bottom-m"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid__cell ytr-resources-grid__cell--span-2"> <h3 class="lb-margin-bottom-xs"> <span class="lb-font-weight-600 lb-font-subhead"> Resources </span> </h3> <ul> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/the-four-rs-of-responsibility-raise-and-reduce" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Learn more about the efforts that support YouTube’s “Raise” principle <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2v-7h-2v7zM14 3v2h3.59l-9.83 9.83 1.41 1.41L19 6.41V10h2V3h-7z"/></svg> </a> </div> </li> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://support.google.com/youtube/topic/9257092?hl=en&ref_topic=9257408" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Learn more about YouTube’s News and Information products <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 2-2v-7h-2v7zM14 3v2h3.59l-9.83 9.83 1.41 1.41L19 6.41V10h2V3h-7z"/></svg> </a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div></p> </div> <div class="ytr-article__content ytr-js-tabs-content-block lb-hide" id="reward"> <h2 class="md md-h2">How does YouTube reward trusted creators and artists?</h2> <p class="md md-p">Being accepted into the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) is a major milestone in any Creator’s journey. As part of YPP, Creators can start monetizing their content as well as gaining access to dedicated support and benefits.</p> <p class="md md-p">Over the last few years, we have taken steps to strengthen the requirements for monetization so that spammers, impersonators, and other offenders can’t hurt the ecosystem or take advantage of Creators who have put their time, energy, and passion into producing high quality content.</p> <p class="md md-p">To apply for membership in YPP, channels must meet eligibility thresholds related to watch time and subscribers. After they have applied, YouTube’s review team ensures that only channels that meet eligibility thresholds and follow all of our guidelines are admitted to the program, which makes them eligible to receive access to ads and other monetization products.</p> <p class="md md-p">Advertisers typically do not want to be associated with controversial or sensitive content on YouTube - as defined in our <a class="md md-a" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Advertiser-Friendly Content Guidelines</a>. If a Creator has turned on ads monetization for a video but our reviewers and automated systems determine that the video does not comply with our Advertiser-Friendly Content Guidelines, the video will have <a class="md md-a" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9269824" rel="noopener" target="_blank">limited or no ads</a> appear against it, which means they won’t be able to make money on that video. We may also suspend a creator’s channel from YPP for severe or repeated violations of our YouTube monetization policies. </p> <p class="md md-p">Responsibility is our number one focus and everything we do is seen through that lens. The downsides both from a user and a business perspective drastically outweigh all considerations.</p> <p class="md md-p" md-node-state="empty"><div class="ytr-resources lb-padding-top-s lb-margin-top-m lb-margin-bottom-m"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid"> <div class="ytr-resources-grid__cell ytr-resources-grid__cell--span-2"> <h3 class="lb-margin-bottom-xs"> <span class="lb-font-weight-600 lb-font-subhead"> Resources </span> </h3> <ul> <li class="lb-font-paragraph lb-margin-top-s"> <div class="lb-margin-top-xs lb-font-paragraph ytr-button"> <a class="ytr-link" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20231006151508/https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/responsibility-good-business-and-creator-economy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow"> Learn more about the efforts that support YouTube’s “Reward” principle <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 24 24" fill="#065fd4"><path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="none"/><path d="M19 19H5V5h7V3H5a2 2 0 00-2 2v14a2 2 0 002 2h14c1.1 0 2-.9 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