‘YouTube is considering moving all children’s videos to the YouTube Kids app’

According to the WSJ, YouTube is considering implementing rigorous measures to prevent young viewers from coming into contact with unwanted images on the video platform. For example, YouTube would consider removing all children’s videos from its platform.

Videos for children would then only be available in the YouTube Kids app, writes the usually well-informed Wall Street Journal. In addition, there would be internal voices to stop the automatic playback of new videos when a watched video has ended. This practice has been criticized because the suggestions offered by YouTube’s algorithm are not always suitable for children.

YouTube doesn’t want to confirm or deny the considerations, but points out that many ideas for improvement are being considered and some of them remain ideas. The video platform has been regularly criticized in the past for not doing enough to protect children from shocking images.

Among other things, many videos appear that seem intended for children and contain well-known cartoon characters, but in reality are child-unfriendly. In the past, they also appeared on YouTube Kids, after which the platform tightened its monitoring. Since the beginning of this year, YouTube has also been disabling comments on videos with children.