Tag Archives: YouTube

YouTube Requires Disclosure Of AI Usage In Videos

Ars Technica reports: YouTube is rolling out a new requirement for content creators: You must disclose when you’re using AI-generated content in your videos. The disclosure appears in the video upload UI and will be used to power an “altered content” warning on videos. Google previewed the “misleading AI content” policy in November, but the questionnaire is now going live. …

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Musk To Launch YouTube Competitor For Smart TVs

Mint reports: Elon Musk has revealed that long-form videos will soon be accessible on smart television sets through the social network X. The announcement comes in the wake of reports by Fortune magazine stating that the platform is gearing up to launch a TV app next week for Amazon and Samsung users. Responding to a user’s inquiry on X, Musk …

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GOP AGs To YouTube: Drop Abortion Pill Fact-Check

The Christian Post reports: A coalition of 16 attorneys general has demanded that YouTube remove information labels attached to videos discussing chemical abortions that they argue are “misleading” to viewers. In a letter sent to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Monday, the attorneys general argued that the information panels the company included below videos on the popular video-sharing platform “misleads …

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YouTube’s Ad-Free Plan Hits 100 Million Subscriptions After Warning To Users That Ad-Blockers Violate TOS

Ars Technica reports: Hot on the heels of Google’s “One” subscription plan obtaining 100 million users, YouTube is also hitting that big milestone, with 100 million people paying for Premium and YouTube Music. YouTube’s subscription data didn’t make it into the earnings call three days ago. Ad-free videos have been getting the most aggressive promotion lately, with Google cracking down …

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YouTuber Gets Six Months For Deliberate Plane Crash

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: An extreme sports athlete from Santa Barbara County was sentenced to six months in federal prison on Monday for intentionally crashing a small plane for a YouTube stunt and then destroying the wreckage. In November 2021, authorities say Trevor Jacob, 30, took off from the Lompoc City Airport in his single-engine Taylorcraft BL-65 on a …

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YouTube Suspends Monetization For Russell Brand

The Guardian reports: YouTube has suspended Russell Brand’s ability to earn money on the platform following allegations of rape and sexual assault in a massive hit to his finances. The video-sharing and social media site said it had suspended Brand’s channel from the YouTube partner programme after serious allegations against him, meaning his videos are no longer able to be …

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YouTube Suspends Owens For Anti-LGBTQ Hate Speech

Media Matters reports: A short video posted Tuesday on the Daily Wire’s YouTube channel contained a by-now familiar disclosure: the platform had suspended Candace Owens, “prohibiting her from posting or appearing on any of the Daily Wire’s YouTube channels.” In response to a request for comment, a YouTube spokesperson stated: “We issued a strike to the Candace Owens Podcast channel …

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RFK Loses Anti-Vax “Free Speech” Suit Against YouTube

Bloomberg Law reports: Google LLC and YouTube LLC won’t be required to immediately restore videos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioning the safety of Covid-19 vaccines to their platform because he’s unlikely to succeed on the merits of his free speech claims against the companies, a federal trial court said. Kennedy, who is seeking to be the Democratic Party’s 2024 …

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YouTube Begins Mass Takedown Of Medical Misinfo

Posted today to YouTube’s corporate blog: In the years since we began our efforts to make YouTube a destination for high-quality health content, we’ve learned critical lessons about developing Community Guidelines in line with local and global health authority guidance on topics that pose serious real-world risks, such as misinformation on COVID-19, vaccines, reproductive health, harmful substances, and more. We’re …

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YouTuber Sparks Mayhem In Manhattan’s Union Square

Gothamist reports: New Yorkers were urged to stay away from Union Square on Friday evening after thousands of people flooded the area to see influencer Kai Cenat, as part of a giveaway for video game devices. The warning issued by the city on Friday afternoon also told New Yorkers to expect traffic delays and a police presence in the park. …

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YouTube Reverses, Will Now Allow Election Denialism

Axios reports: In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content that says fraud, errors or glitches occurred in the 2020 presidential election and other U.S. elections, the company confirmed to Axios Friday. YouTube established the policy in December 2020. Now, the company said in a statement, leaving the policy in place may have the effect …

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YouTuber Faces 20 Years For Deliberate Plane Crash

The New York Daily News reports: A YouTuber and former X Games snowboarder has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge after he intentionally crashed a plane on camera in a bid to up his follower count, prosecutors announced. Trevor Daniel Jacob confessed to authorities that he planned to crash his plane in a video he made. He later …

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YouTube Demonetizes Shapiro Host For Hate Speech

Media Matters reports: In a speech at the University of Iowa, self-described “theocratic fascist” and Daily Wire host Matt Walsh complained that his YouTube channel had been stripped of advertiser revenue, which he said was bringing in more than $100,000 per month. An independent estimate suggests that Walsh’s YouTube revenue could have been as high as $1.6 million per year. …

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YouTube Suspends Cultist Channel On Arraignment Day

From the Right Side Broadcasting Network: Just one day before RSBN was set to cover President Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan, YouTube has resumed its censorship practices and suspended RSBN’s channel, blocking our ability to livestream for seven days. On Monday, RSBN received a notice from YouTube informing us that due to content violating their “elections misinformation” policies, the platform has …

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YouTube Reinstates World Famous Liar’s Account

Axios reports: YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump’s channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. The restrictions have prevented Trump from posting any new YouTube videos to his account, which has more than 2.6 million followers, for over two years. YouTube initially suspended Trump’s account in January 2021, several days following the January 6 insurrection, after his …

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Rittenhouse Launches YouTube Channel About Guns

The Insider reports: Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse has started a YouTube channel that’s all about guns, and the platform is letting it stay up. Rittenhouse posted his first video, a 35-second video titled “Welcome to my channel,” to his channel on Monday. The channel currently has 37,800 subscribers. In the video, Rittenhouse thanks his supporters for continuing to back him …

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Leading Anti-Vaxxer Sues Google Over YouTube Ban

Reuters reports: A Florida doctor known for spreading false claims about vaccines has sued Google LLC and its parent company Alphabet Inc for removing all of his content from their YouTube video-sharing platform with no advance notice, saying the move breached its terms of service. In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, Joseph Mercola asked the …

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California Incel Charged With Multiple Hate Crimes

Law & Crime reports: A 25-year-old California man who police say posted videos online showing him assaulting women has been arrested on hate crime charges related to the self-described involuntary celibacy that investigators believe motivated the attacks. Johnny Deven Young had been wanted since May after police in Costa Mesa identified him as the man who’d pepper sprayed several women …

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Federal Judge Stays Trump’s Suit Over YouTube Ban

Courthouse News reports: A federal judge on Wednesday stayed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit demanding YouTube reinstate his social media account pending Trump’s appeal of the dismissal of his case against Twitter. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White ordered the stay and denied YouTube’s motion to dismiss the case. He also denied Trump’s motion for a preliminary injunction against YouTube …

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YouTube Zaps Riot Hearing Clip Over Trump’s Lies

The New York Times reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot has been trying to draw more eyes to its televised hearings by uploading clips of the proceedings online. But YouTube has removed one of those videos from its platform, saying the committee was advancing election misinformation. The excerpt, which was uploaded June 14, included recorded testimony …

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