YouTube Kids app in trouble again over inappropriate content

Google is in hot water after child and consumer advocacy groups complained to the Federal Trade Commission that its YouTube Kids app contains content innappropriate for children, reports The Wall Street Journal. The complaint, filed on Tuesday by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and the Center for Digital Democracy, stated that the groups found videos that would be “extremely disturbing and/or potentially harmful for young children to view.” The coalition of groups found videos containing explicit sexual language in cartoons, jokes about pedophilia and drug use, adult discussions about family violence, pornography, and child suicide, and a dance tutorial featuring…

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