After a New York Times news report showed that YouTube's content recommendation algorithm was pushing children's videos to sexual predators, YouTube says it will take additional steps to protect kids on the video platform, including no live-streaming video from kids without adult supervision.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, today said it is banning live-streamed broadcasts by children "unless they are clearly accompanied by an adult."

The video platform also has new artificial-intelligence classifiers for live video to "find and remove more of this content."

YouTube channels that don't follow the rules may lose the ability to livestream video, assuming YouTube actually follows through on any of this stuff.

"Responsibility is our number one priority, and chief among our areas of focus is protecting minors and families," YouTube said in a blog post.

"With this update, we'll be able to better identify videos that may put minors at risk and apply our protections" across a bigger segment of videos.

From Todd Spangler at Variety: