An alleged crackdown by YouTube on 'faked' video views on their site has led to billions of views being wiped from music videos.
Some of the world's biggest recording companies have had their content stripped of views as a result, with Sony and Universal Media Group losing nearly 2bn views in a single day.
The decision to wipe the views reportedly came after YouTube conducted an audit of its viewers in an attempt to combat 'black hat' view-count building techniques - when hackers artificially increase the number of views or likes on a YouTube video. MORE HERE & HERE
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