<p>YouTube said Tuesday it was investigating the removal of comments critical of the Chinese Communist Party from the video-sharing platform, saying the filtering appeared to be "an error."</p>.<p>The comments from the Google-owned video service came after a media report in The Verge prompted by complaints from technology entrepreneur Palmer Luckey.</p>.<p>Luckey, a founder of the virtual reality group Oculus who is now with a defense tech firm, tweeted on Monday that "YouTube has deleted every comment I ever made about the Wumao, an internet propaganda division of the Chinese Communist Party," and suggested the filtering appeared to be a new policy of censorship.</p>.<p>Other Twitter users responded to Luckey's tweet that they too believed comments about the CCP had been removed.</p>.<p>But YouTube said in a statement to AFP it had made no policy changes and that its filters are designed to remove only "spammy, hateful or harassing comments" from the platform.</p>.<p>"This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," a YouTube spokesperson said of the complaints.</p>.<p>"Users can report suspected issues to troubleshoot errors and help us make product improvements."</p>.<p>The internet platform said it has been relying more on automated systems during the coronavirus pandemic as its human reviewers have been sent home.</p>.<p>YouTube said in March it expected to see more content removal as a result of its reliance on machine learning instead of human moderators.</p>
<p>YouTube said Tuesday it was investigating the removal of comments critical of the Chinese Communist Party from the video-sharing platform, saying the filtering appeared to be "an error."</p>.<p>The comments from the Google-owned video service came after a media report in The Verge prompted by complaints from technology entrepreneur Palmer Luckey.</p>.<p>Luckey, a founder of the virtual reality group Oculus who is now with a defense tech firm, tweeted on Monday that "YouTube has deleted every comment I ever made about the Wumao, an internet propaganda division of the Chinese Communist Party," and suggested the filtering appeared to be a new policy of censorship.</p>.<p>Other Twitter users responded to Luckey's tweet that they too believed comments about the CCP had been removed.</p>.<p>But YouTube said in a statement to AFP it had made no policy changes and that its filters are designed to remove only "spammy, hateful or harassing comments" from the platform.</p>.<p>"This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," a YouTube spokesperson said of the complaints.</p>.<p>"Users can report suspected issues to troubleshoot errors and help us make product improvements."</p>.<p>The internet platform said it has been relying more on automated systems during the coronavirus pandemic as its human reviewers have been sent home.</p>.<p>YouTube said in March it expected to see more content removal as a result of its reliance on machine learning instead of human moderators.</p>