YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki To Hire Over 10,000 Workers To Help Facilitate Its Operations

Thousands of people will be employed by YouTube to help facilitate its operations on the internet and offering of services to users. YouTube is hiring more people to help curb videos that violate its policies. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said “some bad actors are exploiting” the Google-owned service to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm.” Google will have more than 10,000 workers address the problem by next year, though her blog post Monday doesn’t say how many the company already has. Spokeswoman Michelle Slavich said Tuesday that some have already been hired, and the team will be a combination of employees and contractors. Wojcicki said the company will apply lessons learned from combating violent and extremist videos to other “problematic” videos. YouTube will expand the use of “machine-learning” technology, a new form of artificial intelligence, to flag videos or comments that show hate speech or harm to children. It’s already been using the technology to help remove violent extremist videos. Several advertisers have reportedly pulled ads from YouTube in the past few weeks as a result of stories about videos showing harm to children, hate speech and other topics they don’t want their ads next to. Some 250 advertisers earlier this year also said they would boycott YouTube because of extremist videos that promoted hate and violence. YouTube said Monday that it is also taking steps to try to reassure advertisers that their ads won’t run next to gross videos. There have been reports of creepy videos aimed at children and pedophiles posting comments on children’s videos in recent weeks. There was also a conspiracy-theory video that came up in a YouTube search a day after the October Las Vegas shooting that killed dozens. Google isn’t the only tech company that’s stepping up human content reviews to help it police its platform after criticism. Facebook in May said it would hire 3,000 more people to review videos and posts, and, later, another 1,000 to review ads after discovering Russian ads meant to influence the U.S. presidential election.

UI 2017/2018 Distance Learning Centre Admission Form On Sale

Applications are welcomed from suitably qualified candidates for admissions into the six available Degree Programmes of the Distance Learning Centre, University of Ibadan for the 2017/18 Academic Session. The programmes are: (1) B.A. English, (2) B.A. Philosophy and Public Affairs, (3) B.SC. Psychology (4) B.SC. Economics (5) B.SC. Political Science (6) B.SW. Social Work. The programmes are run under the Universitys Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Platform. The University of Ibadan Distance Learning Centre (UIDLC) is an arm of the University responsible for providing Open and Distance Learning University Education. This mode of education is technology-mediated and provides for minimum physical interaction between the learners and the facilitators. DLC learners are spread across different locations within and outside the country because of the convenience of access which is made available by this mode. It is noteworthy to further inform prospective candidates that the academic activities of UIDLC are facilitated by the same lecturers as the regular mode of study. The issuance of the same certificates as obtainable in the conventional university system is also assured. This is technically referred to as PARITY OF ESTEEM- both categories have equal rights and privileges. At the moment, the Centre has six academic programmes which are fully accredited by the National University Commission (NUC). The Centre is assiduously working towards having four new programmes and five revalidated programmes. This would be in addition to the existing six programmes. These new programmes include: (1) Nursing (2) Computer Science (3) Sociology (4) History and Diplomatic Studies. While the old programmes which revalidation are being sought are: (1) Guidance and Counselling (2) Educational Management (3) Library Information and Archival Studies (4) Adult Education (5) Statistics Interested applicants are to visit http://ift.tt/2jqGv6Y register. NOTICE: It is advisable for prospective candidates to carefully study the admission requirements before making payment for the form, as application that does not meet the requirements will not be accepted by the admission portal.

Agitators Must Abide By Nigeria’s Constitution – Saraki

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has advised all agitators in the country to pursue their interest through constitutional means. The Federal lawmakers which have been away for their annual recess for seven-week resumed plenary session on Tuesday. After a three-hour closed-door meeting during which they discussed some national issues, Saraki said part of the resolutions reached by the Senate is that the Unity of Nigeria not negotiable and all forms of agitation should be channeled through constitutional means. “The unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable. We are all fully committed to the territorial integrity of our country. The Senate will seek all possible avenues to make sure that peace is restored in all parts of Nigeria. “Finally the Senate hereby advise that all groups seeking to pursue any agitation should do so through constitutional means.” Saraki said the unity of Nigeria is the responsibility of all Nigerians and members of the country must jointly condemn in strongest possible terms all forms of violence. “Distinguished colleagues, a house divided against itself will not stand. More than ever before, we must stand for the unity in the visibility of our country. We must condemn in strongest possible terms all forms of violence as a form of engagement. “The constitution and the law has laid down tools and procedures for us to pursue our interest as all democratic nations do.” During the plenary that followed, the Senate also considered a motion on the inadequate releases of funds for the capital component of the 2017 appropriation act.