YouTube’s comments section, historically, has had a bad reputation, but a change rolling out could prevent kids from wading into the comments cesspool. In an email to parents who supervise a child’s ...

Paris Martineau covers platforms, online influence, and social media manipulation for WIRED. But YouTube’s troubles with children, and the content created by and for them, extend far beyond these ...

Parents share why they’re cracking down on YouTube at home. (Photo illustration: Jessica Frampton for Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) When Shawn Kallet’s kids watch too much YouTube, they get ...

An outline for parents to set up controls to add safeguards for kids. — -- A lot of parents are thinking twice about what their kids are watching online after a disturbing video was posted by ...

A strange and unsettling thing was happening this morning on YouTube. If you typed the words "how to have" into the site's search bar, one of the suggested searches was "how to have s*x with kids." By ...

The multicolored slurry of user generated content that for years has been successfully netting millions of kids’ eyeballs on YouTube by remixing popular cartoon characters to crudely act out keyword ...

So many kids love watching videos on YouTube, it seemed like a slam dunk for Google to create a special app specifically for the online video service’s youngest fans. And while YouTube Kids offers a ...

YouTube has updated its rulebook for the era of deepfakes. Starting today, anyone uploading video to the platform must disclose certain uses of synthetic media, including generative AI, so viewers ...

Warning: This article features disturbing content and mentions of suicide. Video promoting self-harm tips -- spliced between clips of a popular video game — has surfaced at least twice on YouTube and ...

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 ...