YouTube recommended videos about guns, school shootings, and serial killers to researchers simulating accounts of young boys
A new study found YouTube's recommendation algorithm pushed videos about modifying guns, school shootings, and a movie about Jeffrey Dahmer to accounts simulating the online behavior of several nine and 14-year-old users. published Tuesday, the video platform's algorithm frequently pushed violent content — including videos that violated YouTube's own policies — to accounts of fictional children that had indicated interest in video games.
that the accounts that interacted with some of the algorithm's recommendations that contained videos like gun modifications and movie and TV scenes of school shootings received about 10 times as many of the videos in subsequent recommendations.," which depicts the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and is rated R. During the study the film was incorrectly labeled as PG on YouTube, and appears to still be mislabeled as of Wednesday.
Specifically, Hernandez said it is unknown if researchers used tools available to parents who control a child's account. Accounts for users under the age of 13 are requiredto be connected to a parent's account, a policy researchers said they adhered to in the report.
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