Youtube Stories for 2020

China Wants Hefty Fines For Viral Video Creators Who Binge Food and Drinks 99
DeepMind's AI Agent MuZero Could Turbocharge YouTube 22
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used To Upload 'Pirate' Movies and File DMCA Notices 53
NVIDIA Apologizes, 'Walks Back' Threat to Withhold GPUs From Reviewer 111
Google Will Let You Limit the Alcohol and Gambling Ads You See 31
YouTube Waits Until a Month After the Election To Act on False Claims of Election Fraud 419
YouTube Will Remind Users To 'Keep Comments Respectful' Before Posting 117
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Align To Fight Covid Vaccine Conspiracies 116
YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators' Videos Without Paying Them 136
Election Misinformation Often Evaded YouTube's Efforts To Stop It. 203
YouTube Launches Audio Ads and Ad-Targetable Music Lineups, Taking Aim at Spotify 20
YouTube Criticized For Not Removing Post-Election Misinformation 183
YouTube Cancels Rewind Video Amid Pandemic 32
EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL 49
Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish 44
Baby Shark Becomes YouTube's Most-Watched Video of All Time 61
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned 111
Software Freedom Conservancy: Microsoft Should Resign from RIAA Over Youtube-DL Takedown Demand 48
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites 99
RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO 58
YouTube Will Warn Users That Election Day Results 'May Not Be Final' 351
'Iranian YouTube' CEO Sentenced To 10 Years Over Video Uploaded By User 125
Chrome Caught Exempting Google Sites From User Requests To Delete Data 50
'youtube-dl' Downloading Software Removed From GitHub By RIAA Takedown Notice 186
YouTube Is So Flooded With Political Ads It Can't Place Them All 84
Google Music Shuts Down Smart Speaker Support and Music Store 46
YouTube Bans QAnon, Other Conspiracy Content That Targets Individuals 117
YouTube Bans Coronavirus Vaccine Misinformation 152
Google Wants YouTube To Become a Shopping Destination 36
AI Restoration Makes Apollo Moon Landing Footage Look Like It Was Shot In HD 88
YouTube Apologises For Mocking Long Videos 88
Apple TV Now Plays YouTube Videos in 4K -- With Limits 24
Nikola Issues Copyright Takedowns Against Critics Who Use Rolling-Truck Clip 34
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
While Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Announce Hate Speech Action, Some Advertisers Remain Skeptical 184
YouTube Will Use Tech Updates To Better Enforce Age Restrictions 25
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple Urged to Stop Advertising to Minors 64
Google Returns to Using Humans (Instead of AI) to Moderate Content on YouTube 88
Picture-In-Picture Mode On iOS 14 No Longer Working With YouTube's Mobile Website Unless You Pay For Premium 63
YouTube's Recommendation System is Criticized as Harmful. Mozilla Wants To Research It 84
Google Faces $3 Billion UK Suit Over Use of Children's Data 28
Slashdot Asks: Favorite YouTube Channels For Web Development and Programming? 48
YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information That Could Interfere With the Election 238
YouTube Will Stop Emailing Subscribers About New Videos Next Week 39
YouTube Bans Thousands of Chinese Accounts To Combat 'Coordinated Influence Operations' 187
YouTube Criticized For Ending Its Community Captions Feature 36
Google Threatens to Remove All Danish Music From YouTube 83
Steve Wozniak Sues YouTube Over Twitter-Like Bitcoin Scam 39
Google Steers Users To YouTube Over Rivals 9
YouTube TV Jacks Up Pricing To Become Most Expensive Cable TV Alternative 154
Apple Launches $100 Million Racial Justice Initiative; YouTube Creates $100 Million Fund for Black Creators and Artists 229
Kids Now Spend Nearly as Much Time Watching TikTok as YouTube in US, UK and Spain 44
YouTube Says China-Linked Comment Deletions Weren't Caused By Outside Parties 51
YouTube is Deleting Comments With Two Phrases That Insult China's Communist Party 109
On Facebook and YouTube, Classical Musicians Are Getting Blocked or Muted 46
Court Fines YouTuber For Posting IPTV Piracy Tutorials 37
'Double Rainbow Guy' From 2010 Viral Video Dies At 57 60
Dozens More Arson Attacks on UK Phone Masts Over 5G Conspiracy Theory 171
'Video Vigilante' Arrested After Filming a Hospital's Emergency Ramp 225
'Virtual Fistfight' Created With Historic Collaboration of 40 Film Stars 103
Eight-Year-Old Discovers iPhone Screen Time Workaround To Watch More YouTube 35
False Claims Spreading Across YouTube and Embraced By Chinese Communist Party Media Accuse US Army Reservist of Starting the Coronavirus 183
Michael Moore Offers Free Streaming of Movie Criticizing the Green Movement 230
Ripple Sues YouTube Over Cryptocurrency Scam Videos 27
As YouTube Traffic Soars, YouTubers Say Pay Is Plummeting 113
Russia Spreads Conspiracy Theory Linking Coronavirus Pandemic to Bill Gates 184
Conspiracy Theories Provoke 30 Arson and Vandalism Attacks Against UK Cellphone Towers 161
After Four More Phone Masts Attacked, YouTube Promises To Remove Some 5G Conspiracy Videos 335
YouTube 'Shorts' Reportedly Launching This Year To Counter TikTok 47
Hacker Hijacks Microsoft YouTube Accounts To Broadcast Crypto Ponzi Scam 15
YouTube To Limit Video Quality Around the World for a Month 75
Risky Hack Could Double Access To Ventilators As Coronavirus Peaks 77
YouTube Goes SD Streaming by Default in Europe Due To COVID-19 52
YouTube Now Highlights 'Authoritative' Coronavirus Coverage On its Homepage 35
Google Scrubs Coronavirus Misinformation on Search, YouTube 115
The Most Popular YouTube Videos About The Coronavirus Are Being Made In India -- And They're Full Of Hoaxes 51
First Amendment Doesn't Apply On YouTube; Judges Reject PragerU Lawsuit 474
YouTube Gaming's Most-Watched Videos Are Dominated By Scams and Cheats 51
YouTube Says it Paid the Music Industry More Than $3 Billion Last Year 30
YouTube Censors Senate Floor Speech With Whistleblower's Name 382
15-Year-Old Fights the FAA's Anti-Model-Flying NPRM With Social Media 106
Google, YouTube and Venmo Send Cease-and-Desist Letters To Facial Recognition App That Helps Law Enforcement 54
YouTube Reveals Revenue For First Time: $15.1 Billion In 2019 73
YouTube Reinforces Guidelines on Fighting Misleading Election Content 125
CBS Makes Star Trek: Picard Pilot Free On YouTube 'For a Limited Time' 168
Study of YouTube Comments Finds Evidence of Radicalization Effect 265
YouTube Moderators Are Being Forced To Sign PTSD Forms 27
Instagram Drops IGTV Button Because Nobody Was Using It 13
YouTube's Algorithm is Pushing Climate Misinformation Videos, and Their Creators Are Profiting From It 275
YouTube Overhauls Advertising, Data Collection On Kids Content 53