As YouTube notes in its response to Bloomberg’s report, the company has begun to take these issues more seriously. YouTube has been especially responsive to toxic content relating to children.

YouTube execs are right — if the community feels toxic — like it needs more and more obscene fuel to satisfy it — it is, in part, merely a mirror showing us how bleak most humans truly are.

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