Tech giant algorithms are pushing ‘horrendous’ content at young people, it has been claimed

Big tech companies should be forced to turn off recommender algorithms which are feeding harmful content to young people, People Before Profit said at an event on Tuesday highlighting online harms.

The party has brought forward a draft bill which would ban the practice whereby companies like TikTok and YouTube feed further content to people who express an interest in a subject.

The draft bill would allow regulators to turn off recommender algorithms for children aged under 18 and ensure that only adult users could turn them on.

People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy said the consequences of these algorithms for young people are “horrendous and driving an epidemic of me...
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