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YouTube still recommending eating disorder videos to teens despite new regulations
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YouTube still recommending eating disorder videos to teens despite new regulations
New research shows that a year after the UK Online Safety Act took effect, one in 10 algorithm-suggested videos on the platform still featured harmful eating disorder content.
- The Centre for Countering Digital Hate set up a simulated 13-year-old user account and found 10% of YouTube's "Up Next" recommendations were classified as harmful eating disorder material.
- This marks an improvement from 2024, when the same experiment found one in four recommendations were harmful, according to the CCDH.
- Google said it had removed the videos highlighted in the report for violating community guidelines, adding that it prohibits content encouraging eating disorders.
- Ofcom earlier said YouTube and TikTok were not doing enough to protect young people and called for stronger protections under the Online Safety Act.
TopicsCentre for Countering Digital HateOnline Safety ActOnline SafetyOfcomEating DisordersTeenagersAlgorithmic RecommendationsYouTube
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