Weeks later, the company announced it would crack down on child-centric videos after BuzzFeed News reported on dozens of videos - with millions of views - that depicted children in disturbing and abusive situations (many of those videos were monetized, making some of their creators hundreds of thousands of dollars per month). In 2018, YouTube came under fire for unwittingly directing users searching for news to conspiracy videos. Shortly after being contacted by BuzzFeed News on Monday afternoon, YouTube began deleting the bestiality-thumbed videos on its platform and terminating the accounts that published them.
