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YouTube banning, restricting videos in response to 'Bird Box challenge'

YouTube has announced that it is banning or restricting videos showing harmful or dangerous pranks in response to problems caused by fads like the so-called "Bird Box challenge."

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Jan 16, 2019, 8:44 PM

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