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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.
Summary
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.
YouTube recommended videos about extreme calorie restriction and harmful substances to teenagers who wanted to lose weight. The situation has improved recently, but only slightly.