On June 7, online video gamer Jericho Tucker published via YouTube a confrontation between police officers and Sixth Street party-goers in downtown Austin. The clip has been cited by many viewers as an example of police brutality.
Google announced Friday it will debut a video live streaming service in Summer 2015 dedicated to broadcasting video games to compete with streaming service Twitch.tv.
We are meant to imagine an innocent, if perhaps a bit high-spirited, gathering of cheerful teens interrupted by a brutal racist cop, who couldn’t wait to find the nearest young lady of color and body-slam her for fun. The reality seems a bit more… nuanced.
Ukrainian LGBT activists held an Equality March in Kiev on Saturday, but faced brutal attacks from the opposition. Those who opposed the march attacked the activists even though President Petro Poroshenko voiced support for the march.
An Iranian court sentenced artist-activist Atena Farghadani, 28, to 12 years in prison for insulting the government, after publishing a cartoon portraying Parliament members with animal heads.
Russian Internet users, apparently manipulated by the Kremlin, began conspicuously surfacing online after Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. These paid “trolls” work all day to flood online articles and social media with praises towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and condemnation of the West.
Google recently added compatibility for 1080p/720p video streaming at 60 frames per second (FPS) to YouTube. Users can stream content at 60 FPS in Elgato Game Capture HD, XSplit Broadcaster, and XSplit Gamecaster, establishing YouTube as a viable alternative to Twitch for streaming video games.
And so, a new genre of music was born.
On Monday, the 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a prior decision by a three-member panel of the same court that forced YouTube to take down the video “Innocence of Muslims,” which sparked condemnation among Muslims globally and was falsely cited by the Obama Administrations as the catalyst for the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Model and YouTube star Cassandra Bankson discovered last year she has two vaginas.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has begun establishing roots in Tunisia to add territory to their caliphate in the Middle East. It appears they already possess admirers in the country, which is a hotspot for international tourists.
The first-ever sitcom web series taped in front of a live studio audience will premiere in May, according to Variety.
Jerry Seinfeld has better things to do than watch your shaky cat videos on YouTube.
A video has emerged that appears to show actor Dennis Quaid lashing out at members of his production crew, after someone wandered into the area where he was filming.
China Central Television (CCTV) suspended popular host Bi Fujian after a video surfaced that showed him insulting Mao Zedong. The station announced they will investigate the incident and Fujian recently apologized.
Last week, terrorists from a Marxist gang in Turkey called the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party–Front took prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage in an Istanbul courthouse and shot him dead. In response to a widely-circulated photograph of Kiraz shortly before his death, the Turkish government banned social media giants Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
A Turkish court threatened Google with a nationwide ban should the popular search engine fails to comply with its ruling against the publication of images showing a kidnapped prosecutor slain by a Marxist terror group last week.
Singapore authorities arrested 17-year-old YouTube blogger Amos Yee after he debuted an eight-minute video that criticized the late founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Gavin MacIntosh, co-star of the ABC Family drama The Fosters, criticized the video-sharing site YouTube over the weekend for adding an age restriction warning regarding a scene that shows he and another teen boy sharing a same-sex kiss.
A video surfacing online of Nicolás Maduro Guerra, son of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, dancing in a shower of dollar bills at the wedding of an elite business owner has outraged the nation. Maduro Guerra, who himself is a public official in his father’s repressive socialist government, has become a prime target of the opposition on social media over the embarrassing display.
Islamic State supporters on Twitter are using the platform to attack Twitter itself, threatening the life of co-founder Jack Dorsey and the safety of those in the site’s headquarters in the United States.
On the anniversary of the ousting of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, a bomb ripped through Kharkiv, Ukraine, killing at least three people.
Apparently the tensions between the Ukrainian and Russian governments are not the only tensions sky high. A Russian journalist from Kremlin station LifeNews literally barked at a Ukrainian journalist in Minsk, Belarus where leaders convened to end the war in east Ukraine.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spent significant political capital combatting social media networks, and Twitter in particular, having previously called the platform a “knife in the hand of a murderer!” But now the man sent out his first tweet on his account @RT_Erdogan.
A 13-year-old Toronto girl with Down Syndrome has decided to show the world her voice, and it is most certainly a beautiful one.
