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The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today | James Bridle
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Writer and artist James Bridle shows how strange and disturbing children's videos on YouTube, from surprise eggs to algorithmic mashups, are produced for ad revenue. He argues they reveal problems in a data-driven internet.
Cited to explain how YouTube's algorithms produce appalling content aimed at children, and as a reason to keep kids off the platform.
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