The Inquisitr - Tech

A viral YouTube video is exposing what appears to be a worldwide ring of child exploitation videos hidden in plain sight on the site and aided by its algorithm to share questionable content featuring adolescent girls — videos complete with advertising from major companies.

The video was compiled by a YouTuber named MattsWhatItIs, showing how the algorithm meant to recommend similar videos for a YouTube account can actually be triggered to share nothing but this questionable content. The user created a new account — one where the algorithm had not yet been set — and made a few clicks starting with a normal search to find videos uploaded by a preteen girl. Though this video was innocent in nature, likely uploaded by the child in question, it caused the site to offer nothing but videos of other young girls in the sidebar.

As the video explored deeper into these suggested

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