YouTube terminates hundreds of accounts in response to major pedophile scandal TechCrunch \/ Video BlocksYouTube have finally given a response to their site-wide pedophile problem, which was uncovered by YouTuber \u2018MattsWhatItIs\u2019 in a chilling video on February 17. While YouTube has suffered from dangerous and pedophilic content for some time, the site has since given a decisive response to this recent exposure of apparent predatory culture across the platform. YouTube addressed the issue in reply to YouTuber Philip DeFranco\u2019s video on the subject, where they claimed that they have terminated over 400 problematic channels \u2013 and even reported certain commenters to the authorities. \u201cIn the last 48 hours\u2026 we\u2019ve disabled comments on on tens of millions of videos,\u201d YouTube stated. \u201cWe\u2019ve also terminated over 400 channels for the comments they\u2019ve left on videos, and reported illegal comments to law enforcement.\u201d YouTuber Matt \u2018MattsWhatItIs\u2019 Watson uncovered the issue during a video in mid February, where he noted that he was able to find suggestive videos of young girls within five clicks on the site. That\u2019s not all; Watson also found himself in what he called a \u2018wormhole\u2019 of problematic content, which featured a plethora of disturbing comments targeting underage girls featured in the videos. Since Wattson\u2019s video went live, a number of notable companies have halted their ads on the platform altogether, after being made aware that their ads were being featured on such videos. Thank you for reaching out, Kassie. IKEA US uses brand safety technology on all of our digital ads to make sure they don\u2019t run in unsafe environments. We’re looking into this with YouTube to ensure these measures are working properly. \u2014 IKEA USA Help (@IKEAUSAHelp) February 19, 2019 Such companies include the likes of Swedish furniture company IKEA, spell-checking service Grammarly, and even Fortnite developers Epic Games, among others. Wattson\u2019s video has garnered over two million views as of February 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTube terminates hundreds of accounts in response to major pedophile scandal TechCrunch \/ Video BlocksYouTube have finally given a response to their site-wide pedophile problem, which was uncovered by YouTuber \u2018MattsWhatItIs\u2019 in a chilling video on February 17. While YouTube has suffered from dangerous and pedophilic content for some time, the site has since given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}