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YouTube Changes Rules for Videos on Eating Disorders: Here’s Some Context

April 20, 2023

Via: CNET

YouTube is updating its rules for content that involves eating disorders or behavior that may inspire eating disorders, the company said Tuesday.

The Google-owned video streaming site already has community guidelines in place that have prohibited content that “glorifies or promotes” eating disorders, Dr. Garth Graham, director of YouTube Health, wrote in a blog post. But in the coming weeks, additional guidelines will be added to prohibit content that contains “imitable” behavior that may inspire people at risk of developing an eating disorder to copy, Graham said.

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