YouTube bosses spent years ignoring the pleas of its staff who were proposing ways of halting the spread of toxic content, it has been claimed. One idea put forward by employees was to allow content deemed borderline acceptable on the platform but remove it from the recommended tab. A YouTube spokesperson told MailOnline that it has taken a number of 'significant steps' over the last two years to remove offensive content. Yonatan Zunger, a privacy engineer at Google, YouTube's parent firm, was behind the idea of removing borderline content from the recommended tab. It says 'borderline' videos that come close to violating community guidelines or those which 'misinform users in a harmful way' will be excluded.

Source: Daily Mail April 03, 2019 13:53 UTC