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🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Since 2015, YouTube Kids has dominated the world of video streaming content for kids online. But over the years, the app has been criticized for its moderation failures and other safety concerns for young people. Recently congress has focused in on the app’s autoplay feature calling for its removal. Recode’s Rebecca Heilweil explains how it works,why adults feel it’s so problematic for children and why designing content platforms for kids is more complicated than it may seem. Read Rebecca’s story about YouTube Kids here. Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn about on Recode Daily? Send your requests and questions to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode was made by: - Host: Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) - Producer: Schuyler Swenson - Engineer: Paul Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.3	Your parents find age-appropriate video online.
0:59.8	There's educational series, cartoon shows.
1:02.0	It looks and feels like a PG version of YouTube.
1:05.6	But child safety advocates say there's a problem with the new app.
1:09.8	One that has to do with its auto play feature.
1:12.9	Rico Jurebaka High-Wile has been looking into this for us and is here to explain Hey
1:16.2	Rebecca.
1:17.2	Hey.
1:18.2	So tell me a bit about what YouTube kids is like.
1:19.7	If I went on it right now, what would I find?
1:21.6	So it's this very colorful kind of stripped down version of what you'd expect to find on
1:28.0	YouTube.
1:29.0	So there's a homepage.
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