triggering event: disappearance from YouTube--due to new automated curation retroactively applied--of Syrian Civil War footage.
"In the summer of 2017, observers of the Syrian civil war realized that YouTube was removing dozens of channels and tens of thousands of videos documenting the conflict. The deletions occurred after YouTube announced that it had deployed “cutting-edge machine learning technology...to identify and remove violent extremism and terrorism-related content.” But the machines went too far."
"In the summer of 2017, observers of the Syrian civil war realized that YouTube was removing dozens of channels and tens of thousands of videos documenting the conflict. The deletions occurred after YouTube announced that it had deployed “cutting-edge machine learning technology...to identify and remove violent extremism and terrorism-related content.” But the machines went too far."