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India, US, Brazil top countries where most YouTube videos flagged by users

India continues to top the list of countries since October 2017 from which YouTube receives flags for suspected violation of its community guidelines. (See YouTube's released data here.) India maintained its top spot in the July-September quarter of the current fiscal year, and is followed by United States, with Brazil as the second runner-up among the countries, from where YouTube receives maximum alerts of the YouTube guideline violations. The report elaborates on the total number of videos, channels and content removed in the last quarter, and the reasons behind the removals. Human flaggers flagged 10,469,600 videos from July to September 2018. The list does not elaborate on the number of flag-requests per country. Content flagged per quarter by humans July-September, 2018: 10,469,600 April-June, 2018:  9,536,606 January- March, 2018: 12,056,911 October-December, 2017: 9,241,154 Following is a table of why videos were removed and when, globally: Flagging reasons July - Sept 2018 April - June 2018 Jan - Mar 2018  Oct - Dec 2017 Spam or misleading 11,645,592 9,956,700 11,656,483 7,795,881 Sexual 10,589,195 10,454,768 10,985,233 9,093,817 Hateful or abusive 7,432,077 6,604,988 5,870,797 4,721,741 Violent or repulsive 5,455,981 4,887,433 4,859,844 4,093,671 Harmful dangerous acts 3,408,582 2,977,555 2,868,288 2,302,280 Child abuse 2,406,643 2,108,699 1,936,090 1,570,532 Promotes terrorism 1,062,893 995,803 903,578 490,665 Other 27 16 17 52 All following data is for the July-September 2018 quarter unless indicated otherwise. Total channels removed For the July to September 2018 quarter, YouTube removed 1,667,587 channels - all the videos (50.2 million videos) from these channels were also removed. A majority of channels were terminated because…

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