A YouTuber-turned-lawmaker has been ordered to apologise for missing Diet

A YouTuber-turned-lawmaker living abroad was ordered on Tuesday by the disciplinary committee of Japan's upper house to apologise to parliament for missing all of his sessions since being elected to the Diet last year.

If Yoshikazu Higashitani, better known as GaaSyy, does not compl...

Google researchers warn YouTube users against Crypto scammers

Researchers from the Google’s Threat Analysis Group have recently discovered that YouTube is currently filled with phishing and crypto scams.

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• Google warns YouTube users of scammers misusing their platform
• Crypto scams have b...

YouTube deletes state-backed RT's channels over Covid-19 misinformation

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• RT's German-language channels were deleted on Wednesday
• Russian authorities approached to develop retaliatory measures against the YouTube

Russia has threatened to block YouTube, as they deleted the RT's German-lan...

KCC TO REVISE LAW ON THE LIMIT OF PAYMENT TO LIVESTREAM BROADCASTERS

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• KCC to revise law on the limit of payment to livestream broadcasters.
• Platforms like YouTube and Afreeca TV operate live payments.
• KCC will pursue legal revisions to prevent excessive payments to livestreamers.

YOUTUBE AND WHATSAPP CLOSE TO GAINING HALF A BILLION USERS IN INDIA

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• In terms of popularity, YouTube is the closest rival of WhatsApp in India.
• Both YouTube and WhatsApp are very close to amass half a billion users in India.

Popular messaging app WhatsApp has very few competitors that are n...

S. KOREA ASKS FOREIGN AND LOCAL ONLINE COMPANIES TO PROVIDE STABLE SERVICES

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• S. Korea asks foreign and local online companies to provide stable services.
• Google, Facebook, Netflix, Naver, Kakao, and Wavve asked to comply with the country’s new law.
• The country will now hold service providers...

UK: YOUTUBE REINSTATES BROADCASTER TALKRADIO FOLLOWING REMOVAL OF FLAGGED CONTENT

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• YouTube has reinstated the Talk radio, which is a broadcaster in the United Kingdom after the removal of the flagged Content
• The TalkRadio has around 4,00,000 listeners and it is regulated by one of the main broadcast watchdog of the Unite...

GOOGLE ONE SUBSCRIBERS CAN NOW GET 3-MONTHS OF FREE YOUTUBE PREMIUM IN UK

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• The subscribers of the Google One will now be getting a 3-month free subscription of the YouTube premium in the United Kingdom
• The offer is looking like, it will be available for some time only in the United Kingdom

One o...

JAPANESE GOVT. TURN TO YOUTUBERS TO PROMOTE THE USE OF ‘MY NUMBER’ ID CARDS

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• Japanese Govt. turn to YouTubers to promote the use of ‘My Number’ ID cards.
• The Cabinet Office of Japan announced open competitive tendering for the promotion of the ID card system.
• ‘My Number’ ca...

YouTube WAS DOWN LAST NIGHT GLOBALLY, BUT THE ISSUE HAS NOW BEEN RESOLVED

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• The social media pages were flooded with complains about the error faced by the users and they started trending the hashtag #YouTubeDown

• The primary issue faced by majority of the users across the globe was that during the time of outage they were unab...

FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND YOUTUBE HAS 81% ADVERTISING IN DIGITAL SPACE OF AUSTRALIA

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• A competition regulator of Australia has reported the tech giants Google, Facebook, and YouTube have expanded their online advertising in the country, leaving just 20% or less for news and different sites

The Australian Competition a...

GOOGLE TO TEST AND LAUNCH YOUTUBE SHORTS IN INDIA

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• YouTube is testing You Tube Shorts in India.
• Google intends to tap into the market of TikTok users in India.
• Beta version of YouTube Shorts is being tested.

After TikTok ban in India, several short video platfor...

YouTube Shorts: NEWEST SUBSTITUTE FOR ByteDance's TikTok

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• YouTube Shorts is Alphabet's answer to TikTok developed by ByteDance and will allow users to upload 15-second or less short-term videos

• Most of the features in YouTube Shorts are similar to TikTok and its rival cloned by Instagram called Reels

GOOGLE URGES CONTENT CREATORS ON YOUTUBE PLATFORM TO STOP ACCC

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• Google is propelling a scare campaign that aims at YouTubers, requesting that makers and watchers flood objections at Australian competition watchdog about its proposed compulsory news code.

The informing looks to set YouTubers and t...

SOUTH KOREANS ANGRY AT NORTH KOREAN ‘YOUTUBERS’

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• North Korea is using YouTube in its propaganda against South Korea.
• North Korean government is allegedly using YouTube to create an impression that life in North Korea is normal despite coronavirus.

As the propaganda battl...

TOP 5 SOUTH KOREAN YOUTUBER'S YOU NEED TO KNOW

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• South Korean YouTubers setting brand image for themselves
• YouTubers based on the number of subscribers
• Wide range of YouTubers with different content

These set of YouTubers have created a brand image fo...

For the best music setup on Google Home, do these moves for Itunes, YouTube Music and more immediately

Google Home has a lot of hidden talents, but play music is all they really want to do for 72 per cent of smart speaker owners. Thing is, your smart speaker Google Home or Google Nest is only as good as the music streaming services to which it is connected. To do that, you have to make sure that y...

PewDiePie says i am very tired

In 2017, The Wall Street Journal, the American newspaper, wrote articles on the YouTube phenomenon. The newsprint identified some of PewDiePie's films making jokes that were deemed anti-Jewish and racist. Throughout the Second World War, there had also been movies of sources in the Nazi regim...

YouTube to crack down on harassment

A historical step was taken by the video sharing platform YouTube on Wednesday. YouTube broadened its anti-harassment policies and included a ban on implied threats.

The platform took the step to curb and control insults based on sexual orientation, gender identity or race. An online po...

Could Election campaigns be affected by virtual reality?

Politics and technology are closely linked with each other. We saw the main parties adopt a new online strategy to win votes with the British general election, which took place later this week. Political parties are now investing more in digital ads than conventional outlets, and broad-based poll...