The researchers, the New York Times reports, find that the same tenets that reward extremism also happen with sexual content on YouTube: A user who watches erotic videos might be recommended videos of ...

If you have pre-school-aged grandchildren, or kids in the first couple of years of primary school, it is almost certain that they will have watched YouTube this week. That is because YouTube – for ...

INTERNATIONAL - 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 ...

Parents are sounding the alarm over sexual and violent AI-generated videos they claim are being recommended to their children by YouTube. Mom Liz Guilar told the Daily Mail she was 'flooded' with ...

YouTube Kids was designed to protect children, but it ended up doing the opposite. For years, content farms exploited the ...

Attorneys general from 14 states are suing TikTok for harming children's mental health. Internal research accidentally revealed this week indicates TikTok knew its algorithm was harmful. Lawyers for ...

This Safer Internet Day, WebWise are inviting parents, educators, schools, and young people to consider how alogrithms and influencers shape young lives. The annual day works as a reminder to empower ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

The second you start watching a video on YouTube, the site begins building an algorithm of your likes. While the goal of that is to show you content you want to see, it means you'll miss out on so ...

If you’ve ever wondered why the content on your online feed seems like it was chosen specifically for you, you can thank an algorithm for that. An algorithm is a set of instructions that tells a ...