Article 3790S YouTube accused of 'violence' against young children over kids' content

YouTube accused of 'violence' against young children over kids' content

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Alex Hern
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Google's video service is filled with disturbing channels and pre-school-aimed videos such as dark Peppa Pig that 'border on abuse', says campaigner

YouTube has been accused of "infrastructural violence" against children due to its role in the creation of vast quantities of low-quality, disturbing content aimed at pre-schoolers.

James Bridle, a campaigning technology-focused artist and writer, documented the way the video platform's algorithmic curation drives enormous amounts of viewers to content made purely to satisfy those algorithms as closely as possible.

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