Malik Ducard, YouTube’s global head of family and learning, likes to tell a story about the time the YouTube Kids app clicked for him personally. It was just before the app’s official launch in 2015, ...

Several consumer groups are speaking out about the way that Google's new YouTube Kids app intermingles commercial and user-generated content with entertainment geared for children, and they say some ...

In the last few weeks, the world has learned through a number of reports that YouTube is plagued by problems with children’s content. The company has ramped up moderation in recent weeks to fight the ...

When YouTube first launched its dedicated “Kids” app earlier this year, parents welcomed the opportunity to be able to keep their children away from the more adult content found on the larger YouTube ...

Consumer watchdog groups announced today they’ve filed additional complaints with the FTC over the advertising content in the YouTube Kids application. The complains this time focus on how the app ...

YouTube markets its YouTube Kids app as a safe space for kids online—a place where they won't be exposed to all the different kinds of kid-inappropriate content the Internet serves up so efficiently.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A better alternative than YouTube’s main service for children A better alternative than YouTube’s main service ...

Paris Martineau covers platforms, online influence, and social media manipulation for WIRED. But YouTube’s troubles with children, and the content created by and for them, extend far beyond these ...