A new report by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a nonprofit watchdog group, has found that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm is leading young kids to videos about school shootings and other gun-related content. The report states that the algorithm is “pushing boys interested in video games to scenes of school shootings, instructions on how to use and modify weapons” and other gun-centric content. The researchers behind the report set up four new YouTube accounts posing as two 9-year-old boys and two 14-year-old boys. All accounts watched playlists of content about popular video games, like Roblox, Lego Star Wars, Halo and Grand Theft Auto. The researchers then tracked the accounts’ recommendations during a 30-day period last November.
The TTP writes that “the study found that YouTube pushed content on shootings and weapons to all of the gamer accounts, but at a much higher volume to the users who clicked on the YouTube-recommended videos.” These videos included…
2023-05-16 18:12:07
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