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Report: YouTube Still Recommends Eating Disorder Videos to Teens

CCDH said one in 10 YouTube recommendations to a simulated 13-year-old profile still promoted harmful eating-disorder material.

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A new report by the Council for Countering Digital Hate has claimed that YouTube's algorithm recommended harmful eating disorder content in one in 9 videos shown to simulated 13-year-old accounts in 2026, down from 1 in 3 in 2024, following the introduction of the U.K.'s Online Safety Act and the EU's Digital Services Act.

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One Year On, YouTube Is Still Recommending Eating Disorder Videos to Teenagers

One year after the UK's online safety rules, YouTube is still recommending eating disorder videos to teenagers, raising fresh concerns.

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BBC News broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Monday, July 13, 2026.
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