Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect on Wednesday amid heavy resistance from the nation’s teenagers, ominous threats from regulators, and apprehension around the world.
Two 15 year-old Australian teenagers are challenging the country’s upcoming social media ban at the nation’s High Court, local outlets reported on Wednesday.
A legal filing released on Friday alleges that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, halted internal research suggesting that people who stopped using its social media platforms experienced less depression and anxiety.
Police in Fujian province, China – the province closest to the nation of Taiwan – announced recently that it would offer bounties for information leading to the arrests of Taiwanese YouTuber Wen Tzu-yu, known as Pa Chiung, and rapper Chen Po-yuan, known as “Minnan Wolf.”
Nov. 12 (UPI) — A carriage dispute between Disney and YouTube TV costs Disney about $4.3 million per day and could cause YouTube TV to lose a fourth of its subscribers.
The broadcast dispute between Disney and YouTube TV is reportedly costing the Mouse House $30 million per week, according to Morgan Stanley.
ESPN’s ongoing carriage dispute with YouTubeTV has directly impacted the network’s ratings in a very negative way.
Those ten million dummies who subscribe to YouTube TV are still paying $83 a month for the service, but no longer have access to ABC, ESPN, or any Disney Grooming Syndicate channels.
Subscribers to YouTube TV have lost access to ESPN, ABC, and other Disney-affiliated channels after contract negotiations broke down on Thursday night.
Google’s YouTube is restructuring its products team in a major shift towards AI, offering voluntary buyout packages with severance to its U.S.-based employees.
A prolific influencer and YouTube video creator known as “Mr. Crafty Pants” has been charged by Kentucky authorities with nearly 30 counts of possessing and trading disturbing sexual images of children on a messenger app traditionally popular with teens.
New York City has filed a lawsuit against major social media companies, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the design and operation of their platforms.
President Donald Trump is urging the American Spanish-language network Univision to return to YouTube TV, saying its recent removal from the streamer will not fare well for Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
President Donald Trump has signed settlement papers that will require YouTube to pay $24.5 million to resolve a lawsuit after the company suspended the president’s account in January 2021 following the riot outside of the U.S. Capitol building.
Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, and said that the Biden administration pressured Google to censor Americans that did not violate the video, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).
YouTube’s broadcast of the Chiefs-Chargers game in Brazil was, shall we say, designed for a certain crowd.
Wired reports that a secretive nonprofit organization with ties to a powerful leftist dark money group is quietly bankrolling a network of high-profile Democratic influencers, offering them up to $8,000 per month to join an astroturf machine pushing leftist talking points online.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has called on Google and Fox Corporation to resolve their ongoing carriage dispute, which threatens to remove several Fox channels from YouTube TV. Carr says removing Fox from YouTube TV would be a “terrible outcome” that would not only impact customers’ access to Fox News, but also major sporting events including college football and the kickoff of the NFL season.
YouTube has led as the top TV distributor in the United States for six straight months, further accelerating the cord-cutter revolution.
Fox Networks could go dark on YouTube TV this week over an ongoing carriage dispute, with less than two weeks to go before the NFL season kicks off.
Google’s YouTube has been secretly using AI to “enhance” users’ videos without their knowledge or consent, leading to a growing sense of unease among content creators.
The government of Qatar has blocked access to the popular gaming platform Roblox after a storm of complaints on social media about the safety of children playing the games.
Gaming giant Roblox has banned and threatened to sue a YouTuber known for confronting alleged predators on the online gaming platform. Roblox, massively popular with children and teens, has a troubled past filled with allegations of grooming and allowing predators to run rampant.
The government of South korea revealed on Sunday that leftist President Lee Jae-myung had proposed at a recent cabinet meeting a massive initiative to silence alleged “fake news” on YouTube.
The government of Australia has reversed its decision to grant YouTube an exemption from its sweeping ban on social media for children under 16. YouTube’s parent company Google is threatening legal action, but Australian officials vowed to push ahead with the ban.
Google said on Monday it has taken down almost 11,000 channels on YouTube for spreading propaganda. It allegedly linked 7,700 of them to China, and another 2,000 to Russia.
The U.S. Senate has passed a unanimous resolution honoring the 39th anniversary of C-SPAN — and urging all streaming television services, including Google’s YouTube TV, to offer C-SPAN to viewers.
A forthcoming U.S. Senate resolution will pressure Google, the parent company of YouTube, to carry C-SPAN broadcasts on YouTubeTV, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
Prominent attorney David Boies has joined the legal team representing video platform Rumble in its multibillion-dollar antitrust case against Google, further escalating a legal battle that alleges the tech giant unfairly stifled YouTube’s competitors in the online video space.
Youtube Children’s show star Ms. Rachel joined notorious anti-Israel journalist Mehdi Hasan — whom actor-comedian Michael Rapaport called a “race hustling Jew Hater who says race hustling Anti Jewish shit daily — on Monday to defend her constant echoing of Hamas talking points against Israel.
The Trump White House is siding with C-SPAN in its effort to pressure YouTube TV to carry the public affairs channel on streaming video — though Google, YouTube’s parent company, is balking at carrying the channel.
YouTube star MrBeast attacked President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, claiming they are impacting his line of “Feastables” chocolate bars and claims they “could really be a nail in the coffin” for small businesses.
LGBT advocates are sounding the alarm after Google’s YouTube discreetly removed language protecting “gender identity and expression” from its public hate speech policy this year. The change could be a sign that the video platform is moving towards free speech on contentious issues during Donald Trump’s second term.
A streaming feud seems to be heating up between streaming giant Netflix and video mega platform Youtube after Netflix’s chief launched a salvo aimed at his Google-owned rival.
The Disney Grooming Syndicate has lost the top spot in total television viewing to YouTube.
The horrid rollout for Disney’s “Snow White” continues to bomb as the $250 million-plus film’s latest trailer is bombarded with negative reviews, promises to boycott, and rebukes for its much-maligned star, Rachel Zegler.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr is asking the CEOs of Alphabet and Google for answers regarding possible discrimination against faith-based programming.
A YouTube channel called True Crime Case Files has garnered millions of views with a series of viral “true crime” documentaries featuring gruesome murder stories – but the crimes are entirely fictional, generated by AI.
More people now watch YouTube on their television than their phones, tablets, laptops, or desktop computers.
The news for Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of “Snow White” just keeps getting worse as both trailers for the troubled film now have more than one million dislikes each on Youtube.
