YouTube bans risky viral challenges. Plus, many Facebook users don't grasp ad targeting: Thursday Wake-Up Call
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YouTube is cracking down on viral videos of dangerous pranks and challenges. The move comes after a plotline in the Netflix thriller “Bird Box” inspired people to put on blindfolds and drive, trek down railroad tracks or walk through traffic. (Yes, people really did those things. And one of them was YouTuber Jake Paul.) Google-owned YouTube also singled out the Tide pod challenge, in which people ate Procter & Gamble’s laundry detergent pods. The company says it updated its policies to make it clear that potentially deadly pranks “have no place on YouTube.”
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