Google Says It Spends Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Annually Reviewing Content

Alphabet Inc’s Google unit told a U.S. House panel it spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on content review and said it manually reviewed more than 1 million suspected “terrorist videos” on YouTube in the first three months of 2019. Google disclosed in a April 24 letter that the manual review found 90,000 videos violated its terrorism policy.