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 ...

You hand over a tablet with the promise, "Just 30 minutes." Before you know it, an hour and a half has passed, and they are still endlessly watching recommended videos and Shorts on YouTube—this is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two small children jump into a bubble bath with expressions of dazed, perpetual pleasure. The taller one has hair like molded chocolate, the other’s is like a yellow ice-cream swirl. Everything—the ...

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 ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how parents of kids ages 12 and younger approach their children’s technology use and screen time. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,054 parents ...

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 ...