YouTube has done a pretty neat work of keeping its platform family-friendly by cracking down on explicit and suggestive content with the help of moderators and filters however reports suggest that a bug has surfaced that lets users upload content that isn’t exactly suited for all age groups.
According to journalist Emanuel Maiberg, users are exploring a bug on YouTube to upload “porn” and those videos are “undeletable” even after their channels are removed. His investigations suggest that even though YouTube has strict filters in place that stop the upload of explicit and suggestive content right out of the gate users have found methods to bypass this.
According to one user, YouTube’s filters rely on the tags to an extent to filter out the content of the video and if the tags section gets overloaded with certain special characters, the algorithm fails to identify the nature of the video and as a result anything that violates YouTube’s community guidelines can be uploaded without any problems whatsoever.
A group who goes by the name Maiberg used this bug to flood YouTube with videos of one specific adult content creator, namely Sweetie Fox and the only way to get these videos off the site is to share the links of specific videos with YouTube support.
YouTube has addressed the issue stating “We’re aware that a small number of videos may have remained on YouTube following a channel termination,” “We’re working to fix this and remove the content from the platform.”. which likely means that this issue will be sorted in the coming days.
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