Last month, users discovered that YouTube’s “Resistricted Mode,” which is intended to offer a safe viewing experience for children, also hid many videos that mentioned or featured same-sex relationships.
A video from user Rowan Ellis last month pointed out the flaw. It’s racked up nearly 100,000 views:
Days after the video was posted, YouTube offered an apology and promised to fix the feature. This week’s announcement delivers on that promise. In a blog post, the company said it identified and fixed the issue:
On the engineering side, we fixed an issue that was incorrectly filtering videos for this feature, and now 12 million additional videos of all types -- including hundreds of thousands featuring LGBTQ+ content -- are available in Restricted Mode.
YouTube is also offering a form that will allow users to alert the company when videos are inappropriately excluded from Restricted Mode.
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Making amends with its LGBTQ community isn’t the only effort YouTube has been working on.
In a separate announcement, the platform is introducing a tutorial series in the United Kingdom to help teens spot fake news. Through its Internet Citizens program, YouTube will hold day-long workshops that aim to educate the teens to be informed internet users.
Naomi Gummer, head of public policy at YouTube UK, issued the following statement:
The internet is what we want it to be. It can be an unpleasant place where people misunderstand and deliberately deceive each other.Or it can be this amazing place where we can share, collaborate, understand and help each other.
We all have a part to play in making it that positive, healthy place. It sounds big, but actually it's easy and you know what to do. Stand up for what you want.
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