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Elsagate (derived from Elsa and the -gate scandal suffix) is a controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that were labelled as "child-friendly" but contained themes inappropriate for children. These videos often featured fictional characters from family-oriented media, sometimes via crossovers, used without
YouTube has suggested potential plans to remove all videos featuring children from the main YouTube site and transferring them to the YouTube Kids site where they would have stronger controls over the recommendation system, as well as other major changes on the main YouTube site to the recommended feature and auto-play system. [128]
YouTube started treating all videos designated as "made for kids" as liable under COPPA on January 6, 2020, [22] resulted in some videos that contain drugs, profanity, sexual content, and violence, alongside some age-restricted videos, also being affected, [23] despite YouTube claiming that such content is "likely not made for kids".
YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing or violent ...
The BBC released a video to caution parents about videos in YouTube Kids with some screenshots and clips included: One such YouTube channel that releases such content is Smile Kids TV .
The Byron Review, titled "Safer Children in a Digital World", was a report ordered in September 2007 by the then prime minister Gordon Brown and delivered on the 27 March 2008 to the UK Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Starting later this year, YouTube will use machine learning to add age restrictions to inappropriate videos automatically. YouTube's AI can automatically age-restrict inappropriate videos Skip to ...
Restricting especially helps in cases when children are exposed to inappropriate content by accident. Monitoring may be effective for lessening acts of cyberbullying within the internet. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is unclear whether parental controls will affect online harassment in children, as little is known about the role the family plays in protecting ...