New study from UConn Rudd Center finds that children as young as age 3 are exposed to unhealthy food brand promotions when viewing videos on mobile devices There’s a new star in your child’s favorite ...

One of the groups said it had used Google’s tools to run a targeted ad campaign this month on children’s channels. Google has said it did not allow such ads on videos made for children. By Nico Grant ...

As young children are being increasingly introduced to smartphones and YouTube earlier in life, there is a need to examine how exposure to these outlets affects their emotional and behavioral ...

Trying to find a good video for your little ones to watch on YouTube can be a challenge. Even if you limit the search to YouTube Kids, there’s so much out there. How can you determine what’s good and ...

YouTube Kids was designed to protect children, but it ended up doing the opposite. For years, content farms exploited the algorithm with bright colors, familiar characters, and repetitive sounds to ...

Even on YouTube Kids, which is intended to provide a more controlled digital environment for children, these kinds of A.I. videos are easy to find. Last summer, videos of A.I.-generated animals diving ...

In an age when more and more young children are hooked on digital devices, YouTube is bombarding them with AI slop. After investigating over 1,000 YouTube shorts recommended to young children by the ...