YouTube isn’t planning to join Meta’s multistate child safety settlement, CEO Neal Mohan told reporters at the Made on YouTube event, saying the company has spent years on teen safety and is “a very different platform,” according to Clare Duffy at CNN. Meta’s deal with state attorneys general requires a two-hour daily limit and an overnight block for users under 18, and Meta built part of it around YouTube and TikTok signing on to the same restrictions and payments. Mohan pointed instead to YouTube’s own tools, including time limits that parents can set on Shorts and input from outside child safety experts. California Attorney General Rob Bonta has said he’s willing to take YouTube and TikTok to court.
