Wouldn’t doubt it if they did. BUT … PBS had services for children as well. Were Bert and Ernie or Mr. Rogers ‘addictive’? I have no idea what YT for children is like, but I wouldn’t have handed my kids over to them to babysit without checking them out … frequently.
YouTube explicitly has a service for children and I’m sure Facebook discovery would prove they explicitly market for children.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
I don’t think these corporations deliberately aimed their content at any age group.
1 hour later:
Wouldn’t doubt it if they did market to kids.
… you do realize you are a clown person, right?
Do you do this often, just a total 180 flip on your position, and then just move on as if that isn’t what happened?
And you go blathering on about some new thing that should be focused on, no acknowledgement that in about 1 hr of other people giving you basic, basic relevant facts to what you are claiming, that you are completely wrong?
You’re talking out your ass, you’re just saying things, having not the first clue what you are talking about.
Ulrich@feddit.org 12 hours ago
So YouTube Kids and Facebook Discovery are the only platforms in question then?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Discovery is a legal process where you obtain internal documents and depose employees to figure what what they’re actually doing.
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 22 hours ago
Facebook specifically was aware that teenage girls were especially harmed by their algorithms, so naturally, instead of reducing that harm, they leaned into it.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Facebook also makes it very hard as an adult to monitor a teens social media use and protect them. I was working with a teen who was joining dating groups made for adults, and the tools wouldn’t let me see the messages being sent. Wouldn’t let me report the groups.