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.

Comments

Demonetization

[SmaryJerry]

I thought YouTube had already turned their whole website into YouTube Kids by demonetizing anything for adults.

Re:Demonetization

[Z00L00K]

Especially the gun related channels - even if most of them are actually pretty informative, like "forgotten weapons".

Another channel that I do follow is bosnianbill.

The Internet - the meme machine

[Camel Pilot]

In the 90's I once heard someone boast that the Internet is the place where religions go to die...

Little did he know that the Internet is where even more bizarre and unsustainable ideas such as Flat Earth and Lizard rulers go to get new life and willing meme hosts.

Really?

[Camel Pilot]

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.

Re:Reptilians did the holocaust?

[Killall -9 Bash]

You seriously are comparing dictatorships and other almost-totalitarian regimes to a modern democracy?

Which one is the democracy?

Freedom of speech does not equal the privilege to insult others at will.

That's pretty much exactly what the fuck it is. Dumbass. No, really. The first amendment exists because King George didn't like colonists talking smack about him, and used military force to suppress opinions. Maybe you think that political speech is different than calling you a dumbass. That's because you're a dumbass. King Dumbass, in fact..... And I don't quite like the royal decrees you've made concerning what I may or may not say.

There is such thing as a mature discussion.

You're new to the Internets, I see.