YouTube axes tens of millions of comments in crackdown on child sexual exploitation
YouTube on Thursday cracked down on pedophilic content on the video site by purging tens of millions of comments, which serve as a kind of powerful but overlooked social network. A video blogger this week published a report on YouTube documenting how comments and recommendations on the platform direct users to potentially sexual videos of children, allowing them to participate in a “soft-core pedophile ring,” according to the report. YouTube also terminated more than 400 […]
