YouTube is considering transferring all children's content to another place
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Google officials are discussing the removal of all child-directed content from YouTube, and then move it to the YouTube Kids Kids app.
According to the newspaper, the discussion of this step is still within the executive unit of Google, which aims to combat harmful behavior targeting children on the site, after the failure of previous steps.
"The company is considering a lot of ideas to improve YouTube, and some are just ideas," a YouTube spokesman told The Verge, a technology specialist.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that other employees at Google and YouTube are asking executives to consider disabling the autoplay feature, which automatically triggers other suggested videos that appear with each video seen.
The move is believed to be a direct response to many of the articles published over the past months, including a recent New York Times report, which found that both harmful and non-harmful videos that focus on children are automatically triggered.
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Suzanne Wajiki, YouTube's chief executive, acknowledged the company's mistakes over the past few weeks, saying in an internal memo: "Some of these decisions were 'disappointing and painful'.
Observers say transferring YouTube content to YouTube will not be as easy as YouTube has uploaded more than 500 hours of video every minute, so such a step may require a radical change in YouTube's structure. Infrastructure.
It is also believed that this step may be harmful to YouTube financially, especially that children's channels are one of the most famous channels on the platform, and you have a huge number of views, which encourages many advertisers to target the pioneers of these channels advertising.
YouTube Kids itself has not been able to solve the problems children face on YouTube. Months after the launch of the application in 2015, there were a series of videos that were harmful to children, including child-directed content, Sex, and suicide.
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