Media Stories for 2020

The ESPN+ Annual Subscription is Going Up by $10 56
Amazon To Buy Podcast Maker Wondery 5
China Jails Citizen Journalist for Wuhan Reports 211
China Wants Hefty Fines For Viral Video Creators Who Binge Food and Drinks 99
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony 114
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps 6
Pornhub Ends Unverified Uploads and Bans Downloads 123
Warner Bros. To Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including 'Dune' and 'Matrix 4,' Both on HBO Max and In Theaters 97
Discovery To Launch Streaming Service in January Starting at $4.99 Per Month 65
BuzzFeed Strikes Deal To Buy HuffPost From Verizon Media 19
After 12,523 Replacements, Feds Investigate Tesla Media Control Unit Failures 147
Hulu Hikes Prices of Live TV Packages by $10 per Month 60
Twitch Users Protest Its DMCA Policy By Streaming Videos With Homemade Sound Effects 126
YouTube Cancels Rewind Video Amid Pandemic 32
Twitch Says It's In Talks To License Music, Tells Users To Delete Videos With Unauthorized Tracks 76
Baby Shark Becomes YouTube's Most-Watched Video of All Time 61
Netflix is Raising the Price of Its Most Popular Plan To $14 Today, Premium Tier Increasing To $18 94
Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content 140
Microsoft Teams Passes 115 Million Daily Active Users 43
'Iranian YouTube' CEO Sentenced To 10 Years Over Video Uploaded By User 125
Quibi Is Shutting Down 60
Netflix Ends Free Trials In the US 35
'Revolutionary' Video-Streaming Service Quibi is Up For Sale Six Months After Launch; Apple, WarnerMedia, and Facebook Have Turned Down the Offer 46
Apple Extends Free Apple TV+ Trials For Three Months 29
AI Restoration Makes Apollo Moon Landing Footage Look Like It Was Shot In HD 88
Netflix Will Only Stream In 4K To Macs That Have a T2 Security Chip 103
YouTubers Are Upscaling the Past To 4K. Historians Want Them To Stop 136
26% of US Adults Get Their News From YouTube, Study Finds 139
YouTube Celebrates Deaf Awareness Week By Killing Crowd-Sourced Captions 41
What No Man Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine To Maximum Quality 118
Chess Is Now a Streaming Obsession 40
Slashdot Asks: Favorite YouTube Channels For Web Development and Programming? 48
Netflix Test Puts a 'Shuffle Play' Button Right on Your Home Screen 38
US Adults Who Mostly Rely On Social Media For News Are Less Informed, Exposed To More Conspiracies: Study 193
Misleading Virus Video, Pushed By the Trumps, Spreads Online 566
Trump's Plan To Regulate Social Media 292
Appeals Court Blocks Trump Appointee's Takeover of Web Nonprofit 20
New H.266 VCC Codec Up To 50% More Efficient Than Previous Standard 115
How Google Docs Became the Social Media of the Resistance 129
India's Richest Man Takes On Zoom 28
New Free Speech Site Gets in a Tangle Over ... Free Speech 181
Minecraft Is Now Home To a Virtual Library of Censored Journalism 17
YouTube TV Jacks Up Pricing To Become Most Expensive Cable TV Alternative 154
Disney Research Creates Face-Swapping Technique For High-Res Video 57
Facebook Will Show Users a Pop-up Warning Before They Share an Outdated Story 44
Facebook and Twitter Remove Manipulated Video From Trump's Accounts After DMCA Complaint 202
Samsung Blu-Ray Players Suddenly Stop Working Worldwide 171
Twitter Labels Trump Tweet As 'Manipulated Media' 404
Zoom Confirms Beijing Asked It To Suspend Activists Over Tiananmen Square Meetings 145
Facebook Tool To Export Pictures To Google Photos Now Available 11
Facebook To Block Ads From State-Controlled Media Entities In the US 36
Roku Removes Dedicated QAnon Channel That Launched Last Month 100
Trump To Order Review of Law Protecting Social Media Firms After Twitter Spat 420
Amazon's Audible Goes Beyond Books To Chase Spotify in Podcasts 1
Podcaster Luminary Seeks Fresh Cash To Buoy Struggling Business 18
Quibi Cofounder Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Streaming Service's Rough Start 72
'Double Rainbow Guy' From 2010 Viral Video Dies At 57 60
Twitter To Label Disputed COVID-19 Tweets 86
False Claims Spreading Across YouTube and Embraced By Chinese Communist Party Media Accuse US Army Reservist of Starting the Coronavirus 183
The Jury Is Still Out On Zoom Trials 43
Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos 27
India Says Zoom 'Not a Safe Platform' For Video Conferencing 49
Over 500,000 Zoom Accounts Sold On Hacker Forums, the Dark Web 23
As YouTube Traffic Soars, YouTubers Say Pay Is Plummeting 113
US Senate Tells Members To Stop Using Zoom 17
'Quit Trying To Make Quibi Happen' 66
Zoom Will Enable Waiting Rooms By Default To Stop Zoombombing 47
'Zoombombing' Is a Federal Offense That Could Result In Imprisonment, Prosecutors Warn 37
Apple Will Stop Taking a Cut of Some Video App Purchases Made Through the App Store 8
School Quits Video Calls After Naked Man 'Guessed' the Meeting Link 143
Facebook's Portal TV Video Chat Device Was Mocked -- Now It's Completely Sold Out 41
COVID-19 Pushes Up Internet Use 70 Percent, Streaming More Than 12 Percent, First Figures Reveal 32
Facebook Lowers Video Quality In Latin America, Following Europe 10
Amazon Prime Video To Slow Streaming To Fight Broadband Overload 43
Petition Calls On Pornhub To Prevent Non-Consensual Videos From Being Posted 180
TSA Bans Employees From Using TikTok 15
YouTube Gaming's Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated By Scams and Cheats 51
Redbox Enters the Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Market 29
We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes In an Indian Election Campaign 39
YouTube Censors Senate Floor Speech With Whistleblower's Name 382
Twitter Will Ban Deepfakes and Other Manipulated Media That Could Cause 'Serious Harm' 56
Amazon Prime Video Gives Amateur How-To's, Conspiracy Theories a Stage 229
Instagram Drops IGTV Button Because Nobody Was Using It 13
Reddit Bans Impersonation On Its Platform 50
YouTube Overhauls Advertising, Data Collection On Kids Content 53
Samsung Debuts 'Sero TV' That Auto-Rotates For Vertical Videos From Your Phone 92