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Google Fined More Than World’s GDP By Russia

Good luck. Russia demands Google pay a fine worth more than the world's total GDP, over YouTube bans on pro-Russian…

3 weeks ago

YouTube Confirms Ads When Screen Is Paused

Chasing the almighty dollar. Alphabet's YouTube reportedly confirms it is delivering adverts on a user's pause screen

2 months ago

Meta Bans Russian State Media Networks

Russian state media networks including RT, Rossiya Segodnya etc banned by Meta Platforms for “foreign interference activity”

2 months ago

Former YouTube Chief Susan Wojcicki Dies At 56

Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube chief executive and one of Google's earliest employees, dies at 56 after battle with lung cancer

3 months ago

YouTube Hit By Thousands Of Outages In Russia

YouTube suffers thousands of outages in Russia as Ukrainian forces conduct raid inside Russia's Kursk region

4 months ago

Elon Musk Sued By Former CNN Anchor Over Cancelled X Deal

Lawsuit time. Musk had cancelled contract with Don Lemon for talk show on X, after questioning over platform's content moderation…

4 months ago

Russia Throttles YouTube Over ‘Anti-Russian Policy’

Russia reduces speed of YouTube by 70 percent this week following multiple fines over failure to remove banned content

4 months ago

US Supreme Court Sidesteps Decision On Social Media Laws

US Supreme Court throws out lower court decisions on Florida, Texas laws imposing social media regulation, demands more research

5 months ago

YouTube Test Community ‘Notes’ Feature For Added Context

YouTube begins testing Notes feature that allows selected users to add contextual information to videos, amidst misinformation scrutiny

5 months ago

Tech Groups Call On US DoJ To Investigate YouTube Monopoly

Open letter urges US Department of Justice to investigate Alphabet's YouTube for alleged domination of home entertainment sector

5 months ago

YouTube Threatens To Block Russian Protest Group’s Anti-War Content

YouTube threatens to pull anti-war content from Russian rights group, after complaint from Putin regime's Roskomnadzor

6 months ago

YouTube Blocks Hong Kong Protest Anthem After Court Order

Anthem used by protesters in Hong Kong is blocked by YouTube, as critics lash out at another clampdown in former…

6 months ago

Google Restricts Gemini AI Chatbot Election Answers

Search engine giant to restrict election-related queries that users can ask Gemini chatbot, after restriction applied in US, India

8 months ago

New York City Sues Social Media Firms Over Youth Mental Health

Cash grab or genuine? Social media firms face lawsuit from New York over a mental health crisis among young people

9 months ago

YouTuber Jailed After Deliberately Crashing Plane For Views

Trevor Jacob jailed after video of him intentionally parachuting out and filming his aeroplane crashing into forest

12 months ago

UK Government, Tech Giants Agree To Tackle Online Fraud

Series of pledges from big name tech firms in agreement with UK government to protect people from online fraud

12 months ago

Google To Begin Deleting Inactive Accounts On Friday

Users have until Friday, as search giant Google moves ahead with plan to delete accounts inactive for at least two…

12 months ago

YouTube Denies Slowing Down Mozilla Firefox

Alphabet's YouTube insists it is not slowing down Firefox, after complaints videos are taking extra long to load on the…

12 months ago

Google Russia Declared Bankrupt After Bank Account Seizure

Russian subsidiary of Google officially declared bankrupt after authorities in Moscow seized bank account in dispute with Western tech

1 year ago

Google Adds AI Chatbot Bard To Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs

Major expansion for Chatbot Bard as Google connects it to full suite tools including Google Docs, Gmail and YouTube

1 year ago

YouTube To Remove False Cancer Treatment Claims

Doesn't already do this? YouTube updates its medical misinformation policy and starts removing false claims about cancer treatment

1 year ago

YouTube Reinstates Donald Trump Account After Two-Year Ban

YouTube reinstates account of ex-US president Donald Trump after two-year ban, as Trump prepares new presidential campaign

2 years ago

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Steps Down

One of the first Google employees, YouTube's CEO Susan Wojcicki, has confirmed she is stepping down after 25 years

2 years ago

Alphabet Earnings Miss Expectations, As YouTube Declines

Google parent Alphabet has felt the impact of reduced advertising spending, after its latest financials mostly missed Wall Street expectations

2 years ago

YouTube Tests Free Ad-Supported Streaming Channels

Alphabet's YouTube is reportedly testing free ad-supported TV channels to challenge the likes of Roku and others

2 years ago

YouTuber Apologises For Failed NFT Project CryptoZoo

Popular YouTuber Logan Paul apologises over failure of CryptoZoo NFT project after investigation calls it a 'scam'

2 years ago

Texas Social Media Law Enforcement Paused By Federal Appeals Court

Federal appeals court pauses Texas social media law’s enforcement, as case heads to the US Supreme Court for ruling

2 years ago