comments were deleted from YouTube during the examined period.
During the fourth quarter of 2022, approximately 91 percent of removed video comments on the Google platform YouTube were deleted due to being spam, misleading, or scam content. Additionally, in the same quarter, almost five percent of comments on videos were removed due to child safety reasons. Over 1.9 billion Distribution of removed YouTube comments worldwide as of 4th quarter 2022, by removal reason
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