The committee’s first meeting at the state Capitol focused on how children can be contacted online quickly — even when ...

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, ...

This column is the second in a series about young people and screens. Read the first post, about connected parenting, here. When I was in high school, I emailed the authors of the textbooks we used so ...

A team of researchers has developed a high accuracy deep learning-based classifier designed to detect YouTube videos with disturbing content for kids. This was done after finding that the current ...

In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems “quality” children’s content, sending waves of traffic to certain video producers and burying other channels.

YouTube quietly rolled out changes to its algorithm last month in an effort to surface more family-friendly content amid an investigation into the platform by the Federal Trade Commission, according ...

Kids love watching creators on platforms like YouTube or Twitch, but it also could expose them to potentially inappropriate ...

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Common Sense Networks, the for-profit arm of news media watchdog group Common Sense Media, launched its free ...

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Instead of channel surfing or browsing through a TV guide, kids today navigate complex streaming platforms and their algorithms to find shows, which is influencing their viewing habits, according to a ...