YouTube still recommending eating disorder videos to teens, research finds
Summary
New research shows that YouTube still suggests videos about eating disorders to teens, even after new rules were made to reduce harmful content. The Centre for Countering Digital Hate created a fake account to test recommendations and found that 10% of videos suggested involved dangerous diet or body image topics.Key Facts
- YouTube recommends some eating disorder videos to teenagers one year after new safety rules started.
- The research used a fake 13-year-old girl's account to test what videos YouTube suggests.
- About 1 in 10 recommended videos included harmful ideas like extreme calorie restriction or thinspiration.
- This is better than two years ago when 1 in 4 videos were harmful, but still a problem.
- Google said it works hard to remove bad videos and the ones found were taken down.
- UK rules now require sites like YouTube to protect users under 18 from risky content.
- If companies don’t follow these rules, they can be fined up to 10% of their worldwide earnings.
- An ex-patient with anorexia said such online content worsened her condition and she stopped using social media at university.
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