and jacqui wakefield has been investigating how children are being targeted online with fake science.er—18s are the biggest audience on youtube... my favourite youtuber is a gamer called dantdm. i like, like animal videos. mr beast. ..and parents and schools now rely on it as a tool to access great science content. but there's a new type of content creator, using artificial intelligence to create videos full of false information. imagine being told that the world you live in is not real. creators are tagging these videos as educational content, and they're often beating legitimate science videos in the race to be recommended. these videos do well because they are potentially in some way maybe conspiratorial. you know, we're all fascinated by things that run counter to what we're officially told, and children obviously maybe are more susceptible perhaps to this than adults. we wanted to see if these videos were reaching children. so we created an experiment. we set up four children's accounts on youtube. each account watched 50 science videos from legitimate creators. after only four d

and jacqui wakefield has been investigating how children are being targeted online with fake science.he biggest audience on youtube... my favourite youtuber is a gamer called dantdm. i like, like animal videos. mr beast. ..and parents and schools now rely on it as a tool to access great science content. but there's a new type of content creator, using artificial intelligence to create videos full of false information. imagine being told that the world you live in is not real. creators are tagging these videos as educational content, and they're often beating legitimate science videos in the race to be recommended. these videos do well because they are potentially in some way maybe conspiratorial. you know, we're all fascinated by things that run counter to what we're officially told, and children obviously maybe are more susceptible perhaps to this than adults. we wanted to see if these videos were reaching children. so we created an experiment. we set up four children's accounts on youtube. each account watched 50 science videos from legitimate creators. after only four days, one of

that report from jacqui wakefield.le. shall we be the judge of that? take _ understand as possible. shall we be the judge of that? take a _ understand as possible. shall we be the judge of that? take a little i the judge of that? take a little luck! here's how electricity works. let's start with the circuit first. the electrons come from the power source. then do the surge. energy gets transferred. this lights up in a moment. to understand you need to know the words. the first word is voltage. it's always misunderstood. it measures the push of electrons. the higher voltage, the greater the push. the second word is current. so i tell you now and not later, it measures the flow of electrons. i love it! i wanted to see the third word explanation. they are online. let's talk about how exposed children are on youtube. what considerations have you taken on board when putting your videos out there? what kind of assurances have you sought to make sure children are safe watching your videos? ~ ., ~ children are safe watching yo

and jacqui wakefield has been investigating how children are being targeted online with fake science.children. so we created an experiment. we set up four children's accounts on youtube. each account watched 50 science videos from legitimate creators. after only four days, one of the bad science channels cropped up in the recommended videos. once we clicked these videos, they flooded our recommended feed. but would kids in the real world believe what they were seeing? with the right amount - of pressure, the great pyramid could generate a tremendous amount of electricity. - i find it really interesting that pyramids can make electricity. pyramid power plantsi were and are possible. i was quite surprised to find out... ..just a pile of rocks can form electricity. i didn't know that people| so long ago would be able to make electricity- and use modern technology. the person who was talking sounded very professional and knew what he was talking about. we found more than 50 channels creating these bad science videos, and they are getting hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of views