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YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube Kids, the supposedly child-friendly version of YouTube that's been shown to often play host to troves of slop content and disturbing videos, apparently was showing videos from British conspiracy theorist David Icke, a guy who believes reptilian aliens secretly control the world and are responsible for the Holocaust. According to a Saturday report in Business Insider, searching for the term "UFO" on YouTube kids turned up a video purporting "to show a UFO shooting at a chemtrail." The suggested followups for that video featured a number of Icke's clips, including a nearly five-hour lecture on how aliens built the pyramids and secretly run the planet through a ruling class extraterrestrial-human hybrids. The video also delves into a number of other conspiracy theories, including claims Freemasons indulge in human sacrifice and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by his own government.

According to Business Insider, "Two other conspiracy theory videos by Icke appeared in the related videos, meaning it was easy for children to quickly go from watching relatively innocent videos about toys to conspiracy content." Searching for the term "moon landing" also resulted in a number of conspiratorial videos emerging, including one making the claim that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in.

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  1. Icke = anti-War, pro-Human... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The problem with Icke is that he constantly speads an ANTI-WAR agenda, with well considered pro-Humanist arguments. The exact opposite of team Blair/Clinton/Merkel/Macron etc.

    David Icke is the enemy of all Fabian (named as Ingsoc in Orwell's 1984) organisations, especially the BBC and Guardian newspaper (both of which were at the forefront of pushing Blair's Iraq WMD lies to the planet).

    Icke's books are remarkable when you ignore the 10% of colourful fantasy all such thinkers seem to include. But it is the commonplace tactic of the state to ensure this 10% gets all the attention.

    Meanwhile Google, the owner of Youtube, has purchased all available military robot design and manufacturing facilities, and is busy on a trillion dollar project to design and build the tank drone forces that are commonly refered to as "teminator-style genocide machines". In other words Icke and Google are on exact opposite sides of the moral spectrum- Google being (as it always has been) pure evil.

    On google's 'child friendly' youtube, children are told that Hillary Clinton's holocaust of Libya was a "good thing". Letting you kids access the child-friendly version of youtube is like allowing them to spend time alone with a catholic priest.

  2. Really? by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have underestimated the power of... stupid.

    I know several Flat Earthers and there is no evidence you can supply them to convince them otherwise. They go so far as to Thank Jesus for revealing the Truth to them.