The changes would take place "over the next few months," YouTube said then. So YouTube said it would suspend comments on videos featuring minors who were 13 and younger, as well as on videos featuring older minors who could be at risk of attracting predatory behavior. And once you fell into that rabbit hole, YouTube's recommendation algorithm appeared to feed you more of the same. Clicking on the links would transport viewers to other moments in YouTube videos with a minor in a sexually suggestive position. Some videos featuring young children included comments with predatory links. In February, YouTube said it would disable comments on videos with young kids following an outcry over a ring of softcore pedophilia. Google is one of the big tech companies facing increasing questions about the power it wields, with the Justice Department kicking off an antitrust investigation into big tech. YouTube's difficulty managing children's content is only one problem in a parade that the Google-owned site has faced in the last few years, including allegations that it allows hate speech to proliferate, spreads conspiracy theories and discriminates against some creators. But YouTube has also faced scandals involving videos of child abuse and exploitation and nightmarish content in its YouTube Kids app, pitched as a kid-safe zone. That $170 million penalty addressed the data YouTube collects on kids without parents' consent.
Kids content is one of its most-watched categories, but YouTube has come under fire for a range of scandals involving children. YouTube is the world's biggest online video source, with 2 billion monthly users - so big, in fact, it's the world's top source for kids videos too. "We continue to disable comments on hundreds of thousands of videos a day and improve our classifiers." "We've suspended comments on hundreds of millions of videos featuring minors in risky situations and implemented a classifier that helps us remove two times the number of violative comments," YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi said. In a statement, YouTube said it invests significantly in the teams and technologies that allow it "to provide minors and families the best protection possible." A single YouTube search for one kids-focused subject - "pretend play" - returned more than 100 videos with comments enabled, all prominently featuring infants, preschoolers and other children young enough to still have their baby teeth.Īfter CNET contacted YouTube with a list of these videos, comments were disabled on nearly half of them. It hasn't.Ĭomment-enabled videos prominently depicting young kids are still easy to find on YouTube. One problem: YouTube's machine learning was already supposed to be suspending comments on videos featuring young minors. YouTube pledged to disable comments, notifications and personalized ads on all videos directed at children, and its machine learning will police YouTube's sprawling catalog to keep kids videos in line, the company said. The company is reengineering how it treats clips directed at children, following this month's record $170 million penalty for violating kids' data privacy. YouTube, Google's massive online video site, is about to embark on the biggest changes yet to kids videos.
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