YouTube publishes the number of views that go to videos that violate the terms of service.

YouTube is in a never-ending fight.
Every minute, YouTube is inundated with videos that violate one of the site’s many rules, whether it’s pornography, copyrighted content, violent extremism, or dangerous misinformation. In recent years, the organization has improved its artificially intelligent computing programs to discourage the majority of these so-called violate videos from being posted to the web, but it continues to face criticism for its inability to prevent the dissemination of dangerous content.

YouTube introduced a new measure on Tuesday to explain its success in detecting and deleting rule-breaking videos: the Violative View Rate. It’s the amount of overall YouTube views that come from videos that don’t follow YouTube’s rules until they’re deleted.

In a blog post, YouTube said that in the fourth quarter of 2020, violative videos accounted for 0.16 percent to 0.18 percent of all views on the website. Or, to put it another way, 16 to 18 out of every 10,000 YouTube views is for content that violated YouTube’s terms and was ultimately deleted.

YouTube stated that it would not reveal the cumulative amount of times the problematic videos were viewed before being deleted. This resistance illustrates the…