Users reported seeing ‘s*x with your kids’ and other variants after entering phrase ‘how to have’ on Google-owned siteYouTube is investigating reports that its autofill search features are suggesting “profoundly disturbing” child abuse terms. Users reported seeing auto-suggestions of “s*x with your kids” and other variants after entering the phrase “how to have” in the search box on the Google-owned site. Experts have speculated that the search terms – several of which use the asterisked word “s*x” – may have been deliberately aimed at embarrassing the site, avoiding YouTube’s filters for terms such as “sex”. The latest incident comes days after major brands, including Mars, Lidl and Adidas, pulled their adverts from Google and YouTube after predatory comments were found on videos of children. None of the results linked to the “how to have” search showed videos of children being abused.

Source: The Guardian November 27, 2017 17:30 UTC