YouTube reportedly considers moving all children's content to YouTube Kids

Get the Full StoryYouTube is reportedly considering major changes after a long string of terrible headlines involving everything from pedophiles to gun-wielding Disney characters.

The company might remove all children's content from YouTube and show it exclusively in the YouTube Kids app, a new Wall Street Journal article says.

The other option under discussion involves entirely turning off auto-playing recommended videos on children's content. This is the system that leads viewers from a seemingly harmless video to extreme content and conspiracy theories.

These changes would be immense for YouTube. The platform has reportedly been relying on down-ranking and reducing the reach of controversial content, rather than removing it outright. But turning off the recommendation algorithm for children altogether would amount to some sort of admission that it's the platform's architecture not the content that is the problem. Read more...More about Youtube Kids, Algorithms, Tech, Kids, and Big Tech Companies

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