Google has declared it is 'periodically auditing' video views on YouTube as part of the ongoing battle to improve view-count accuracy.
The parent company shared the news in a Google Online Security blogpost called 'Keeping YouTube views Authentic', emphasising that it takes accuracy of such interactions on the platform "very seriously" and that those articificially inflating view counts were "undermining" the nature of the service. It explained: "While in the past we would scan views for spam immediately after they occurred, ...
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