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"I couldn’t get YouTube to see that ‘God curse the Jews’ is a form of hate speech"

How hero moderator who dared to speak up was silenced

March 31, 2022 10:14
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Whistleblower Khaled Hassan, speaking to David Rose at The Jewish Chronicle about his time working to monitor content on Youtube. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 28/03/2022

ByDavid Rose, Investigations editor

4 min read

Whistleblower Khaled Hassan started work at Crisp, a Leeds-based “digital risk intelligence” firm employed to moderate content for YouTube, in February 2021.

As an Egyptian-born Arabic speaker, his job was to identify hateful content in his native language and flag it to the video sharing giant to be removed.

But he soon realised that getting the company to take down antisemitic videos and those that glorify terrorism was not going to be easy, despite YouTube’s policies claiming it will do so.

The JC had also been exposing the harmful content in a series of stories since last June. YouTube had not only failed to remove the channels but had not given us a response.

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