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Young YouTube viewers stand an alarmingly high chance of stumbling across disturbing videos. There is a聽45聽per cent probability of them reaching inappropriate content within 10 clicks of a first, child-oriented YouTube video.
鈥淚t鈥檚 shocking, and confirms what every parent experiences when their聽kids watch YouTube,鈥 says Michael Sirivianos at Cyprus University of Technology.
Sirivianos and his colleagues analysed more than 130,000 videos targeted at children aged between 1聽and 5. The titles of the chosen videos contained keywords likely to聽appeal to young…
