WF-A44STQ
Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content
YouTube’s content filtering and recommendation algorithms exposed children to disturbing and inappropriate videos.
- Date it happened
- 2015-05-19
- Organisation involved
- YouTube
- Product, system or model
- Content-recommendation and filtering algorithm
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