CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago singer with hundreds of thousands of teenage followers online faces child pornography charges for allegedly instructing two young female fans to send him sexually explicit videos of themselves.
Theresa May, the newly re-elected British Prime Minister spoke at a press conference on Tuesday ahead of a visit to meet with the French President Emmanuel Macron, revealing that the two countries would be working together to push a new legal liability on social media and technology companies to remove “unacceptable” content that is promoted on their platforms.
Amazon is mobilizing a July 12 collective “Day of Action” for tech corporations and social justice warriors to unite in rebelling against the FCC’s efforts to overturn Net Neutrality. The 12th falls on the 96th anniversary of Lenin’s call to deploy Russian communists to start civil wars around the world.
(Reuters) — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks, according to several sources familiar with the situation.
Donald Trump’s weekly presidential addresses have become YouTube hits. Unlike the addresses of past presidents — which attracted little attention — Trump’s videos have “become surprise online blockbusters — with record numbers of Internet viewers,” the Boston Globe’s Annie Linskey reports.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologized to major advertisers last Thursday for not dealing with “offensive” content on the platform.
The mother of a “white boy from Devon” who left a bomb on a London underground train has called for YouTube to be banned, blaming the video sharing platform for corrupting her son. Student Damon Smith, 20, faces years in prison
(Reuters) — Social media were heavily criticized by a committee of British lawmakers on Monday for failing to do enough to remove illegal and extremist material posted on their sites, and for not preventing it appearing in the first place.
According to Business Insider’s 2017 Digital Trust survey, Facebook and YouTube are regarded by consumers as having the most annoying advertisements.
(Reuters) — Video-sharing platforms such as Google’s YouTube and Vimeo will have to take measures to protect citizens from content containing hate speech and incitement to violence under measures voted by EU lawmakers on Tuesday.
Google has launched a new series of workshops which aim to teach teenagers how to tackle “fake news” and “hate speech.”
Netflix identified mankind’s need for sleep as its primary competitor this week, branding it as the company’s “greatest enemy.”
Desperate to protect their declining industry, old media publications are demanding that social media give them a share of their ad revenue.
Customers of YouTube TV, the upcoming television cable package from YouTube, will be forced to watch commercials even on recorded shows, according to a report.
The CEO of WPP, the largest advertising company in the world, told CNBC that companies are looking for other platforms to place their advertising online beyond the “duopoly” of Facebook and Google. “What our clients want, and indeed what the
YouTube videos will now have to reach at least 10,000 views before the creators earn any advertisement revenue, according to a new blog post from the company.
Left-leaning YouTube personality David Pakman has claimed that a boycott of the platform by major advertisers, which is projected to cost parent company Google hundreds of millions of dollars, is “hitting progressive news channels the most.”
Google is training its advanced computer systems to be offended over potentially distasteful advert placements, according to a report by The New York Times.
The CEO of advertising giant WPP, Martin Sorrel, declared advertisers boycotting YouTube for hosting extremist content “doesn’t make sense,” but that Google and Facebook need to “step up” their fight against the inappropriate content on their platform. Speaking to CNBC,
YouTube has demonetized videos by some the platform’s top content creators, leading many users with millions of fans to reconsider their future with the site.
According to analysts from Nomura Instinet, Google could potentially lose $750 million or more as a result of the advertising boycott that it is currently facing for allowing advertisements to appear on extremist videos.
Google’s parent company Alphabet lost around $20 billion in value last week, due to a 2% drop in its share prices as a result of a coordinated advertising boycott by big companies worried about their advertising being placed next to inappropriate content.
Just two hours of social media use a day can double the risk of young adults feeling “socially isolated,” according to a recent study.
A group of major U.S. advertisers, including AT&T, Verizon, and Johnson & Johnson have withdrawn their advertising from Google, despite the company’s pledge to crackdown on “offensive” and “extremist” content.
The Solicitor General for England and Wales, Robert Buckland, has claimed that Google may be in breach of the Terrorism Act for failing to take down material from proscribed extremist organizations.
Google has pledged to crack down on “offensive” and “hateful” content, after numerous companies withdrew advertisements from YouTube, citing their appearance next to “extremist” videos.
Google’s European boss has announced a policy change along with apologizing for allowing advertisements on Google and YouTube to appear next to extremist material. Multiple organizations, including the UK government, have already pulled their advertisements for fear of damaging their brands and contributing to the funding of groups whose videos their advertisements appeared next to.
Users began to notice that content which was based around homosexuality or LGBT issues was not appearing under certain searches.
The British Government has pulled all advertising from YouTube over concerns that their adverts were appearing on “inappropriate” videos. The BBC, the Guardian and Channel 4 also backed out of YouTube advertising over similar worries. The Cabinet Office said that
(Reuters) — Vietnam on Thursday called on all companies doing business there to stop advertising on YouTube, Facebook and other social media until they find a way to halt the publication of “toxic” anti-government information.
Top executives from the UK arms of Facebook, Twitter, and Google appeared in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday and were grilled about an apparent failure to tackle ‘hate speech’ on their platforms. The committee directed most
YouTube has a responsibility to advance “the greater good of humanity,” according to public comments made by CEO Susan Wojcicki during a tech conference hosted by The New York Times in California.
Google announced on Tuesday the launch of the new YouTube TV service: a so-called “skinny bundle” that lets you stream select cable TV channels on any device at a much cheaper price than regular cable television providers.
A livestream of a pregnant giraffe at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, NY, has been removed from YouTube after being flagged for “pornographic content.”
YouTube has reinstated MILO livestreaming privileges after temporarily suspending them over a video that called Democrats “cuckolds.”
YouTube disabled Breitbart News Senior Editor MILO’s livestreaming ability on Friday, just hours before his speech on immigration at the University of New Mexico.
WatchMojo, a popular YouTube channel that became known for its top-ten lists, was temporarily suspended from YouTube on Monday.
YouTube has restored the official channel for conservative blog Legal Insurrection following coverage from Breitbart News and a number of other media outlets.
YouTube has removed the channel for popular conservative blog Legal Insurrection, taking down every video allegedly without prior warning.
TEL AVIV – The YouTube sensations known as Diamond and Silk released a new video slamming President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry for “stabbing Israel in the back.”
