YouTube draws flak after Redditor highlights ‘paedophilia ring’

YouTube is again under fire for failing to protect the children through its community of online video content. A Redditor has highlighted what he calls a ‘wormhole into soft-core paedophilia ring on YouTube’, which the company is sadly even monetising upon.

Redditor Matt Watson discovered that YouTube’s recommended algorithm is facilitating paedophiles’ ability to connect with each other, trade contact information, and link to actual child pornography through the comments section, where people are time-stamping sections of the video when the children are shown in compromising positions.

In his post on Reddit, Watson writes that over the course of two days he was able to get access to such content through never-before-used YouTube accounts via innocuous videos. He says, in this process, these videos are being monetized by big brands such as McDonald’s and Disney.