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Thailand shooting at government office announced during YouTube live stream
A former Thai lawmaker allegedly declared he had attacked a local official just outside Bangkok during a phone call with a well-known…
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Trial starts in L.A. lawsuit alleging Instagram and YouTube knew apps harmed kids
A landmark civil trial that will ask jurors to decide whether social media companies can be held liable for pushing a product that they…
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Images showing American YouTube star IShowSpeed injured in Nigeria are doctored
As part of his African tour, American YouTuber IShowSpeed stopped in Nigeria's economic and cultural capital, Lagos, where he celebrated…
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I mocked the Saudi leader on YouTube - then my phone was hacked and I was beaten up in London
With hundreds of millions of views, YouTuber Ghanem al-Masarir was flying high. From his flat in Wembley, the loud-mouthed and sometimes…
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Is social media harmful for kids? Meta and YouTube face trial after TikTok settles suit
TikTok has agreed to settle the first in a series of closely-watched product liability cases, bowing out on the eve of a landmark trial…
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Random YouTube Livestream Pops Up on White House Website
The photos were released through a Dropbox account, and nothing in the upload indicates who the photos are of or when they were taken.…
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ESPN suffers triple loss amid YouTube TV standoff
Late last month, YouTube TV announced it was removing Disney's ABC and ESPN from its platform after the two sides failed to reach an…
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YouTube steps up its shopping game with help from influencers
Inside a historic aircraft hangar in Playa Vista, crowds of people gathered on Thursday to browse the latest fashions from handbags to…
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Videos show unrest in Nepal and Indonesia, not Bangladesh
Three people were shot dead after protests erupted in Bangladesh's southeast border region with India over the alleged rape of a…
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The Leftist Podcaster Who Studies Online Radicalization
This past March, the Times writer and power podcaster Ezra Klein appeared on “Doomscroll,” a small but influential YouTube interview show…
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Google is training its AI tools on YouTube videos. These creators aren't happy
Santa Ana-based entrepreneur Charlie Chang spent years posting finance videos on YouTube before he made a profit. Today, Chang’s media…
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Posts falsely claims former Nigerian minister’s car was stoned during campaign
As Nigeria prepared for elections in 2027, social media posts shared a video claiming it shows Nigerian former interior minister Rauf…
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Adam Friedland’s Comedy of Discomforts
When CBS announced the cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” in July, a long-theorized concern came true: the late-night…
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Nobody Wins on “Surrounded”
A couple of weeks ago, a clip from a YouTube video titled “1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives” started circulating on social…
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Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?
Hurwitz, however, is undaunted by such matters. For one thing, he is not troubled by the notion that children will be lost to classical…
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Pakistan seeks YouTube ban on 27 opposition and journalist channels
Alphabet-owned YouTube has informed more than two dozen critics of the Pakistani government that it is reviewing a court directive seeking…
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Video of 2020 Beirut port explosion misrepresented as Huthi missile attack on Israel
Yemen’s Huthi rebels have fired numerous missiles at Israel since the war on Gaza began, and while most have been intercepted, one…
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YouTube turns 20 years old. How it changed TV as we know it
The grainy 19-second YouTube video that started it all hardly had the makings of a viral sensation. Shot at the San Diego Zoo, the…
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Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul?
On the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler Logan…
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Regrets, the YouTube Moms Have a Few
When Ryan O’Neal was making the promotional rounds for “Paper Moon,” in 1973, the actor informed the press that he did not want his…
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Trump-appointed judge dissents in California ammo case with gun-filled YouTube video
A Trump-appointed appellate court judge who disagreed with a decision by his colleagues to uphold California’s ban on large-capacity…
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YouTube is buying TikTok ads to lure creators before US ban
YOUTUBE is running ads on TikTok targeting the app’s content creators, an effort to lure these valuable users to the Google-owned rival…
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The Cruel Abstraction of “Beast Games”
“Beast Games,” a reality-competition show currently streaming on Amazon Prime, opens with a dramatic camera shot, circling in three-sixty…
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Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit From a TikTok Ban
Follow live updates on the Supreme Court ruling against TikTok. On Wednesday afternoon, executives at Meta held a Q&A session with some of…