After Mark Zuckerberg’s big announcement that Meta will no longer fact check, Google is also sending a message to the European Union: The search giant is opting out of a new EU law that requires fact checks. While tech companies might feel emboldened now to...
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January 17, 2025 albert
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Following an investigation into sexual assault allegations against Brand, his YouTube channel has been suspended from making money. Mashable
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September 19, 2023 albert
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YouTubers who curse like sailors, rejoice! In a video published on Tuesday to its Creator Insider channel, YouTube announced that it’s relaxing some of the new policies regarding profanity on the platform to allow more monetization opportunities for creators. According to YouTube, profanity will no...
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March 8, 2023 albert
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In its effort to remain family-friendly and woo advertisers, YouTube has often struggled to please its vast, diverse community of creators. It seems that the brand’s first-ever “Made on YouTube” event, held this morning, was an attempt to strengthen that relationship by showing creators how...
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September 20, 2022 albert
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After months of testing its TikTok competitor in India and a limited beta rollout in the states, YouTube is finally launching YouTube Shorts for everyone in the U.S. So now you might be asking yourself…what is YouTube Shorts in the first place? And how do...
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May 13, 2021 albert
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GitHub defies a takedown order, Strava raises a big round and Moderna reports promising COVID-19 vaccine results. This is your Daily Crunch for November 16, 2020. The big story: GitHub reinstates YouTube downloading project Back in October, the Recording Industry Association of America sent a...
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November 17, 2020 albert
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Another class action style lawsuit has been lodged against a tech giant in the UK alleging violations of privacy and seeking major damages. The latest representative action, filed against Google-owned YouTube, accuses the platform of routinely breaking UK and European data protection laws by unlawfully...
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September 14, 2020 albert
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YouTube has banned a large number of Chinese accounts it said were engaging in “coordinated influence operations” on political issues, the company announced today. 2,596 accounts from China alone were taken down from April to June, compared with 277 in the first three months of...
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August 5, 2020 albert
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Web: Search for a video, watch that video, then get on with your life. That’s Tube, a third party website that strips YouTube back to basics. How-To Geek
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April 18, 2018 albert
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Genius, the big database of song lyrics and musical knowledge, is today launching its own version of “stories,” the Snapchat and Instagram-like short form sharing format that’s been rapidly spreading to a number of sites and apps, including Facebook, Messenger, Skype, and even Google. Genius’...
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April 2, 2018 albert
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