A pair of advocacy groups today took YouTube and major brands to task for junk-food videos allegedly appearing on the YouTube Kids smartphone app, asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate their practices.
The Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood and Center for Digital Democracy jointly stated that more than a dozen marketers have violated their own pledges to refrain from marketing any kind of food—much less candy bars and potato chips—to adolescents on YouTube Kids, which debuted in February.
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