YouTube a significant carrier of harmful content: Australian online-safety official

( June 24, 2025, 04:58 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Australian children say that 75 percent of the damaging content they encounter online comes from social media, with YouTube the most frequently cited platform, the country’s top online-safety official has said. Presenting new research today, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said that four in 10 children surveyed had reported being exposed to harmful online content on YouTube, at a time when the Google-owned video-streaming platform had “surreptitiously rolled back its content-moderation process to keep more harmful content on its platform.” Inman Grant also revealed at a press conference that she had written to the Australian government, asking that it overturn an exemption granted to YouTube as part of the new under-16 social-media ban.eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant's speech to the National Press Club follows; her letter to the government is attached. ...