YouTube on Tuesday announced a series of changes to how it deals with content related to eating disorders.
The platform has long removed content that glorifies or promotes eating disorders, and YouTube's Community Guidelines will now also prohibit content that features behaviors such as purging after eating or extreme calorie counting that at-risk users could be inspired to imitate.
"We're thinking about how to thread the needle in terms of essential conversations and information that people might have," Graham said, "allowing people to hear stories about recovery and allowing people to hear educational information but also realizing that the display of that information ... can serve as a trigger as well."
In addition to removing or age restricting some videos, YouTube plans to add panels pointing viewers to crisis resources under eating disorder-related content in nine countries, with plans to expand to more areas. And when a creators' video is removed for violating its eating disorder policy, Graham said YouTube will send them resources about how to create content that's less likely to harm other viewers.
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