YouTube comments bombarded with porn and scam links targeting channels with millions of young fans
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Spam commenters are flooding popular YouTube channels with links containing suspected scams and directing young audiences towards pornographic websites.
An i investigation found comments sections on channels such as that of MrBeast – a YouTuber famous for viral stunts with more than 94 million subscribers – were bombarded with spam comments despite YouTube claiming to have addressed the problem in 2019.
Using an open-source spam detection algorithm, our investigation found that on a number of...
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