Commer­cials ran alongs­ide offens­ive videos and commen­ts prompt­ed compan­iesAlphabet’s YouTube said on Thursday it had disabled comments on videos featuring minors, a week after a magazine reported the platform displayed ads next to videos that showed exploitation of children. YouTube quietly offers free movie streaming“Over the past week, we disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior,” YouTube said in a blog post. The report by Wired magazine said that commercials ran alongside offensive videos and comments prompted companies such as food and beverage maker Nestle SA and carrier AT&T to pause advertising on YouTube earlier this week. Google moves to fix YouTube glitch exploited for child porn“While we have been removing hundreds of millions of comments for violating our policies, we had been working on an even more effective classifier, that will identify and remove predatory comments,” YouTube said. Read full story

Source: The Express Tribune March 01, 2019 11:37 UTC