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And while YouTube Kids disallows inappropriate content and is intended to steer children away from the main app, the efficacy of that method has been called into question. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] An investigation, published by Wired on 30 March 2021, found dozens of "disturbing" or "grotesque" animated videos targeting Minecraft and Among Us fans that were ...
One such YouTube channel that releases such content is Smile Kids TV.The creator, Stephen Rattigan, actually blames parents for their children watching his videos.
The YouTube Kids app has faced criticism over the accessibility of videos that are inappropriate for its target audience. The CCFC filed an FTC complaint over YouTube Kids shortly after its release, citing examples of inappropriate videos that were accessible via the app's search tool (such as those related to wine in their testing), and the ...
YouTube contracts companies to hire content moderators, who view content flagged as potentially violating YouTube's content policies and determines if they should be removed. In September 2020, a class-action suit was filed by a former content moderator who reported developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after an 18-month period on ...
Starting later this year, YouTube will use machine learning to add age restrictions to inappropriate videos automatically. YouTube's AI can automatically age-restrict inappropriate videos Skip to ...
YouTube started treating all videos designated as "made for kids" as liable under COPPA on January 6, 2020, [22] resulted in some videos that contain drugs, profanity, sexual content, and violence, along side some age-restricted videos, also being affected, [23] despite YouTube claiming that such content is "likely not made for kids". [24]
When his kids ask to watch the YouTube channel Genevieve’s Playhouse — which boasts 34 million subscribers — Rich Rozeboom admits he's not above pretending that the TV isn't working.
The changes have been in the making since disturbing events like a YouTuber’s arrest on child pornography charges in 2017 [21] and the widely reported, seedy underbelly of kids’ YouTube content overall. [22] In a video postmortem uploaded after his channel was reinstated, Oyzon called out YouTube for how the reporting algorithm lacks context.