That’s only a partial victory, according to Hadi al-Khatib, the Archive’s founder and director. Since January, all but 55 of those 216 channels have been restored.
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“We download YouTube videos and import them into our system,” Shabnam Mojtahedi, a legal and strategy analyst with the Syria Justice and Accountability Center, said back in January, “and there have been times when I’m reviewing a video and analyzing it for the legal content, and I’ll hit refresh or come back two minutes later, and it will be off YouTube.” Other human rights monitors noticed videos continuing to vanish off the site through the beginning of 2018.
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Between September and December, well after the issue drew high-profile media attention, some 68 YouTube channels that the web video storage and curation project the Syrian Archive had been tracking were taken offline, comprising over 400,000 videos and bringing the total number of deleted channels to 216. But activists say that they didn’t entirely stop. The subsequent outcry led to media coverage in the New York Times and the Intercept. Many videos (including Higgins’s and Bellingcat’s) were eventually restored, and the pace of removals slowed. Within a few days, some 900 Syria-related channels, including those run by Higgins and Bellingcat, disappeared off the platform. The algorithm’s purpose was to expedite the removal of propaganda videos that extremist groups like ISIS had posted-but it flagged a large volume of activist content for removal, too.
Over the summer of 2017, YouTube introduced a machine-learning-based algorithm to flag videos for terms of service (ToS)-related violations. But YouTube, whose first video in 2005 depicts one of the company’s cofounders in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, wasn’t designed to be the world’s largest repository of war footage. YouTube hosts 4 million videos related to Syria that have been uploaded since the outbreak of the war in 2011, according to Keith Hiatt, vice president of the human rights program at Benetech, a technology nonprofit. The 26-video playlist that Higgins made the following day depicts a child’s body being loaded into an ambulance, people screaming as they confront the rubble of destroyed buildings, and fighter jets diving through the empty sky. The videos leave little doubt as to the horrors being inflicted on the area’s civilian population. On February 19, Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat and an analyst who pioneered the use of “open-source” evidence in conflict investigations, compiled a playlist of YouTube videos taken in the enclave that day. Much of what the world knows about Eastern Ghouta’s plight comes from residents uploading videos from the area.
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