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

YouTube is going to release a Kids app that relies on humans for its algorithm, not a computer. This will be a whitelisted variant of its existing YouTube Kids app ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...