YouTube announces new policies on eating disorder content; see key changes [details]

Google-owned YouTube has introduced that it’s going to replace its method to eating disorder-related content material to create house for neighborhood, restoration and sources whereas defending viewers within the coming weeks.

“We’ve lengthy had policies to take away content material that glorifies or promotes eating issues. Moving ahead, we’ll be updating our Community Guidelines to additionally prohibit content material about eating issues that characteristic imitable behaviour, or behaviour that we labored with specialists to find out can lead at-risk viewers to mimic,” Youtube mentioned in a blogpost.

According to the corporate, the policies might embody — disordered eating behaviours, similar to purging after eating or severely proscribing energy, and weight-based bullying within the context of eating issues.

The firm has collaborated carefully with NEDA (National Eating Disorder Association) and different organisations to deepen its understanding of imitable behaviour, its potential manifestations in content material, and its affect on weak viewers as a part of the event of its new policies.

Moreover, to make sure acceptable content material viewing, the corporate has applied ‘age restrictions’ on sure supplies discussing disordered eating behaviours within the context of restoration, in addition to those who characteristic EDSA, as they might not be appropriate for all ages.

“Some movies won’t be out there to viewers beneath 18 if you happen to’re signed out, or if the video is embedded on one other web site,” the corporate mentioned.

Further, Youtubehas launched eating disorder disaster useful resource panels beneath movies, that are at present out there on the prime of search outcomes associated to eating issues within the US, UK, India, Canada, Japan, Korea, Mexico, France and Germany, the corporate mentioned.

(With inputs from IANS)