TEL AVIV – A former candidate parliamentary candidate on behalf of Canada’s Green Party has sparked outrage for releasing a video claiming that the Holocaust was a “six million lie” that never happened.
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been blocked in Turkey during an ongoing military coup.
YouTube star PewDiePie blasted gaming news outlets for focusing on him and denied claims that he was involved in any wrongdoing after it emerged that Warner Bros. paid a number of YouTubers for promoted videos of their game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor without instructing them to disclose they were paid for those videos.
YouTube has used its “hate speech” policy to remove a video posted by CounterJihad that exposed how the Muslim Brotherhood wages what it calls “Civilization Jihad” in America.
An “unusual” video of an unidentified go-kart driver racing down the Interstate 880 in Oakland on Sunday has gone viral. Even more mysterious is who was driving the black SUV that was chasing behind the buggy, and whether it was a police vehicle.
Dozens of YouTubers have released videos protesting YouTube’s new harassment policy changes, claiming the move to be the start of a crackdown on freedom of speech.
Some Donald Trump supporters, Hillary Clinton argued, were “frustrated” and “fearful” and therefore susceptible to what she described as Trump’s “misleading promises.”
Some of the web’s biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.
Israel’s Justice Ministry is drafting legislation that would enable it to order Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media to remove online postings it deems to be inciting terrorism. “We are working on draft legislation, similar to what is being done in other countries; one law that would allow for a judicial injunction to order the removal of certain content, such as websites that incite to terrorism,” Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said.
A group of daredevils completed a test run on the 70th floor slide — the “Skyslide” — that was recently installed on what is currently the tallest building on the West Coast, the U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles.
Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and members of U2 have joined hundreds of other music industry heavyweights in signing an open petition to Congress calling for reform of the Digital Music Copyright Act (DMCA).
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Obama administration is scrubbing certain portions of Orlando terrorist shooter Omar Mateen’s 911 call during his attack on a gay nightclub in order to ensure the contents of the phone call are not used for terrorist propaganda purposes.
Obama’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton is not proving popular on YouTube — but you can’t see any of the comments criticizing it.
The supposed sloshed sojourns of a trio of British partygoers who claimed they accidentally arrived in Syria after a night of drunken tomfoolery turned out to be a “great prank,” The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
Twitter users are expressing their support for people’s right to use so-called “hate speech” on social media, after the European Union (EU) announced they are working with Facebook and others to censor unwanted online speech within 24 hours. Yesterday, it
Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, joined Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday to discuss efforts to control social media and the online flow of information with “hate speech” laws.
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have “signed up” to a new European Union (EU) “Code of Conduct”, pledging to help censor and “criminalise” perceived “illegal online hate speech” and “promot[e] independent counter-narratives” that the EU favors. The Code, which has been
A number of left, liberal-leaning groups rode to the defence of free speech this morning after it was announced that the European Commission in partnership with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, would be heavily policing the internet for “hate speech”
Gaining the worldwide rights to stream 10 NFL Thursday Night games is a positive for Twitter, but it does not address the erosion of its Monthly Average User (MAU) numbers, and competition from Facebook, YouTube and WeChat.
Fox has shown some amazing gall, exploiting YouTube’s DMCA policies to protect a video clip that doesn’t even belong to them.
A coalition of “anti-racist”, gay rights and student groups are preparing to sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for allegedly hosting “hate speech” but continuing to censor pornographic content. France’s largest “anti-racism” group, SOS Racism, the Jewish Students’ Union (UEJF), and
According to the latest statistics, the Battlefield 1 trailer is now the highest rated video on YouTube with a staggering 1.3 million upvotes.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website is promoting a campaign by ‘Refugees Welcome’ – a group encouraging Europeans to offer their spare rooms to migrants – by using advertising to target anti-immigration YouTube videos… on YouTube. Refugees Welcome has paid for pro-migrant adverts
The video game Milo Tosser, wherein players throw Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos off a roof to a bloody death by Islamic State jihadists, has come under fire for being “homophobic” and “anti-Muslim,” according to Newsweek.
Peter Mensch, the manager of world-renowned music bands including Metallica, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Muse, has described YouTube as “the devil” to the music industry.
A YouTube video has emerged that shows Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte joking about a rape in 1989.
TEL AVIV – An Israeli media watchdog monitoring Palestinian incitement has had its YouTube channel terminated for ostensibly violating the video-sharing site’s “terms of service” after it released a video showing a Palestinian child reciting a provocative anti-Israel poem. The NGO Palestinian
With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.
An absurd conspiracy theory regarding the fate of child beauty pageant star JonBenét Ramsey is making its way around the web this week.
TEL AVIV – A Saudi teacher who was filmed physically abusing a student has been suspended, winning both sympathy and condemnation on Arabic social media. In the video that went viral the teacher is seen addressing his class at Jeddah’s Alfaysaliya school for gifted children. A student named Hassan then asks a question, and the teacher becomes angry and starts slapping him on his head and pushing him into a corner.
YouTube is joining Amazon and Netflix by offering exclusive original content for YouTube Red subscribers.
Gaza may be physically cut off from the world under a blockade imposed by Egypt and Israel, but that hasn’t quashed the enthusiasm of young entrepreneurs who are getting guidance on their start-ups from the likes of Microsoft and Google.
Pakistan has unblocked popular social media site YouTube after three years, but only because the site provided the government with a version it can censor.
Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate was live-streamed on YouTube, but only a small fraction of the U.S. population actually tuned in.
President Obama says modern politics are overly loud and obnoxious – suggesting that’s part of the reason Donald Trump is getting so much attention.
Disney’s Maker Studios has decided to bankroll the Internet’s favorite guy-who-screams-into-a-microphone, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg.
The White House says President Obama will host another round of interviews with YouTube stars this year after the State of the Union address.
TEL AVIV – Israeli animators produced a clip of video game icon Super Mario in a wheelchair to raise social awareness of better accessibility for people with disabilities. The clip, which garnered upwards of 150,000 views on YouTube and Facebook in
TEL AVIV – A Michigan woman posted a video on YouTube defending Palestinian stabbing attacks against Jews and compared Jews to animals. In the Arabic-language video (watch it here) translated by MEMRI and titled “Is stabbing Jews haram [forbidden]?”, pro-Palestinian activist Lina Allan blasts Muslims who say that stabbing is “haram,” or forbidden under Islamic law, and tells such Muslims to “go back to watching Turkish soap operas.”
As The Force Awakens breaks box office records nationwide, my Ted Cruz Star Wars video satire, The Constitution Strikes Back: The Cruzade, is going viral on You Tube.
