YouTube has suspended one of the largest media companies in Australia, local Sky News, from posting on its platform for allegedly breaching Covid-19 misinformation policies. It has also reportedly had some of its videos removed. The one-week suspension was issued following a review of Sky News Australia’s “old videos,” the channel announced on Sunday. Under the terms of the temporary ban, for... 

Over the past year, I’ve written extensively about the initially creeping — and then sweeping — censorship occurring online. Initially, the censorship vortex was on vaccines. Social media platforms and Google all started suppressing and then outright banning content raising questions about vaccine safety. I warned everyone that this would eventually spread to other topics that might threaten... 

The World Health Organization has held talks with tech giants to stop the spread of coronavirus “misinformation,” despite the fact that some things once labeled “misinformation” have since turned out to be true. The meeting was organized by the WHO but hosted by Facebook at its Menlo Park campus in California. Attendees included representatives from Amazon, Twilio, Dropbox, Google, Verizon,... 

This is by far the most insane law to suddenly pop up in Europe! What is really “misinformation”? The Irish government can basically arrest anyone over anything. Just say: I saw the grass in my yard was blue because I spilled some paint on it. Your neighbor can say: I didn’t see your grass being blue, grass is generally green, you are pushing “misinformation”! Government... 

Google and YouTube have confirmed plans to censor content they deem to be “harmful” in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. Google noted that it is already censoring content deemed to be “manipulated media” or “hate and harassment.” “These are two broad, subjective terms that have been used by tech giants to justify mass censorship,” journalist... 

The CEO of Google-owned YouTube, Neal Mohan, defended the platform’s recent decision to demonetize actor Russell Brand’s channel in the wake of sexual assault allegations, saying that users can be suspended from monetization due to “off-platform news” that puts “the broader creator ecosystem” at risk of being “damaged.” “If creators have off-platform behavior, or there’s off-platform... 

YouTube’s war against Robert F. Kennedy Jr continues as the Big Tech platform has now deleted a 90-minute podcast starring Kennedy, in which he proposed a link between the escalation in transgender adolescents and exposure to chemicals. The June 5 conversation with Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson also encompassed topics from climate change to COVID-19 measures. In a controversial inflection... 

In response to the growing demand for open political discourse and the evolving landscape of public opinion, YouTube has made significant policy changes regarding the removal of videos that propagate false claims about previous US presidential elections. The video-sharing platform, acknowledging the need to create an environment where users can openly debate even controversial ideas, has announced... 

Prince Andrew has deleted his Twitter and YouTube accounts after being stripped of his royal title. On Wednesday, the prince’s staff purged his social media profiles. People searching for the Duke of York’s official Twitter page, @thedukeofyork, were given the message “this account doesn’t exist – try searching for another.” Those searching for Andrew’s YouTube account, @thedukeofyork,... 

President Putin has followed through on his threat to hold YouTube accountable for their mass censorship by issuing a massive fine against the Big Tech company. Earlier this year, Putin warned YouTube that he would do everything in his power to punish them unless they stopped censoring non-mainstream topics from their platform. Now, the Google-owned company will have to a pay a whopping 1 billion... 

The co-founder of YouTube has labelled the company’s decision to remove the ‘dislike’ button as a “Stupid move.” Jawed Karim, who sold his stake in YouTube for $65 million in 2006, was the first person to ever upload a video to YouTube and he used that video to comment on the scrapping of the ‘thumb down’ button. In the description section of the video, which shows the engineer visiting... 

YouTube has officially hidden the thumbs-down counter on all videos from public view, citing “dislike attacks” it said were targeting small channels. Critics say the official White House channel will benefit the most. “We’re making the dislike counts private across YouTube, but the dislike button is not going away. This change will start gradually rolling out today,” the Google-owned platform... 

Officials in Moscow have issued a sternly-worded ultimatum to YouTube’s parent company, Google, saying the video streaming site could face restrictions after it took down two channels run by RT’s German-language service. In the statement, released on Wednesday morning, the country’s national media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said that it “demands all restrictions be lifted from the YouTube channels... 

YouTube has been fined 100,000 euros by the German Higher Regional Court at Dresden after it wrongly deleted a user’s video which showed massive pandemic lockdown protests in Switzerland – and then failed to reinstate the video ‘immediately’ after the court ordered it to do so on April 20. Instead, the company waited nearly a month to revive the video, which led to last week’s... 

An update to YouTube’s content monetization rules has left some small creators dismayed. People watching their videos will be served ads, and the Big Tech company will take all the revenue for itself. All videos are now infested with ads. Ads everywhere! The Google-owned video-sharing platform is giving itself some additional space to profit from the content it hosts. Once the updated rules come...