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YouTube is restricting video recommendations for teenagers to better shield them from content that idealizes particular body types, fitness levels or body weights, the platform has announced. Working with a team of experts on child development and digital learning, YouTube has identified “categories of content that may be innocuous as a single video, but could be problematic for some teens if viewed repetitively,” the platform said. Those include videos that compare “physical features and idealizes some types over others” as well as content that “idealizes specific fitness levels or body weigh…

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