YouTube removed 58 million videos between July and September this year because they broke community guidelines.
According to The Hill, More than 7.8 million of those videos were taken down because they violated community guidelines. The other 50.2 million were taken down as YouTube removed 1.67 million channels.
The online video platform said 72 percent of the videos removed for violating guidelines in the latest quarter were "spam or misleading," 10.2 percent were removed out of concern for "child safety" and 9.9 percent were removed for including "nudity or sexual content," according to its latest report.
The "transparency" report, which was released publicly on Thursday, emerges as YouTube touts its efforts to screen and delete harmful content more often and more efficiently.
YouTube, which is owned by Google, has deleted more than 31 million videos since October 2017, and started releasing "transparency reports" in 2017.
The reports have expanded significantly as YouTube faces intensifying criticism over the deluge of controversial, harmful and violent content on its platform.
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