You will be notified if you are about to post an offensive comment on a YouTube video

In an attempt to eliminate offensive comments from videos, YouTube will ask people, “Is this something you really want to share?” – before posting anything that might be offensive. With that. Facebook is following in the footsteps of other social media companies trying to tackle bullying and abuse on their platforms.

YouTube is launching a new product feature that will alert people if they are about to post a comment that might be offensive to others, giving them a chance to think before posting, the video streaming platform explained in a blog post.

However, this new tool will not prevent you from posting a comment. In addition, the prompt to “rethink” will only appear for posts that YouTube might find offensive, based on content that has been repeatedly flagged on the platform. Once the prompt appears, users can still go ahead and post the comment exactly as they intended or take some time to edit.

For creators, the company is rolling out better content filtering systems in YouTube Studio, the place where creators manage their channels. At the YouTube studio, a new filter is in place that will look for inappropriate and offensive comments that will automatically be flagged and taken for review and removed from the queue so people don’t have to read them.

This feature will first be deployed on Android and will be available in English before being available in other languages.

YouTube has tried to clean its platform of offensive and abusive posts and has been working on it for some time now. The platform has used automatic filtering to remove daily hate speech comments 46 times more since early 2019 than before, according to their reports.

For offensive videos, YouTube says it terminated 1.8 million channels in the last quarter and that more than 54,000 of them were due to hate speech.