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I don't think YouTube themselves are doing that. As the uploader, AfD can absolutely just remove all negative comments they don't like. And they've been able to do that since YouTube started.

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My understanding is that comments with negative sentiments get held for moderation and bigger channels never go through and approve them so they’re effectively shadow banned comments

Can they filter out words automatically? Like I know that tons of people seemingly love to be moderators (for free) so maybe some channels just have enough mods to delete stuff very fast, but sometimes the whole comment section is just too clean. Do YouTube channels have more advanced moderator tools now?

The funny thing is that I started to get that impression on videos of Moroccan politics of all things. Not some western culture war topic haha.

> Can they filter out words automatically?

Yep. See "Blocked Words" https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359?hl=en

There's also the option to manually approve every comment.

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