YouTube will not stop recommending videos of young children, despite ongoing concerns that predators are being presented with these videos through the company’s recommendation algorithm.
A new report from The New York Times found that, despite evidence from independent researchers that YouTube’s algorithm helps videos of children spread among predatory circles, YouTube’s teams don’t want to turn off recommendations because it would hurt creators by reducing traffic driven to their videos. Instead, the company will “limit recommendations on videos that it deems as putting children at risk,” the Times writes.
Limiting recommendations is the latest attempt on YouTube’s part to control its pedophilia problem. The company instituted major…
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