YouTube Says It Removed 7 Million Children's Accounts This Year

YouTube plans to tell Congress that it removed 7 million accounts believed to belong to young children and preteens on the sly in the first nine months of this year, with 3 million of those removals coming in the third quarter as the company has "ramped up our automated removal efforts." The stat is an excerpt from prepared testimony set to be delivered at a Senate hearing on online child protections.

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