YouTube’s Community Guidelines will now also prohibit content that features behaviors such as purging after eating or extreme calorie counting that at-risk users could be inspired to imitate
The platform has long removed content that glorifies or promotes eating disorders, and . For videos that feature such “imitable behaviors” in the context of recovery, YouTube will allow the content to remain on the site but restrict it to users who are logged into the site and are over the age of 18.
And TikTok has faced criticism from an online safety group that claimed the app served eating disorder related content to teens . They also follow several updates by YouTube in recent years to how it handles misinformation about medical issues such as abortion and vaccines. In addition to removing or age restricting some videos, YouTube plans to add panels pointing viewers to crisis resources under eating disorder-related content in nine countries, with plans to expand to more areas.
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