WF-7WR78N
YouTube Auto-Moderation Mistakenly Banned Women of Sex Tech Conference
YouTube’s automated content moderation tool erroneously removed The Women of Sex Tech conference’s live-streamed event and banned the conference from the platform, despite not violating the platform’s sexual content policies.
- Date it happened
- 2020-05-02
- Organisation involved
- YouTube
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