YouTube will remove misinformation about cancer treatment and streamline medical guidelines.

YouTube will restrict access to content based on a user's age or display an information panel beneath such videos to provide additional context. Exceptions to this rule include posts containing content of public interest, such as comments made by national political candidates on the campaign ...

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.

Highlights

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

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

Highlights

• 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...

YouTube Music crosses a mark of 50 million subscribers

Highlights

• YouTube Music crosses 50 million subscribers
• Spotify is dominating the music streaming market, followed by Apple and Amazon

On Thursday, YouTube’s music streaming service said that it has reported having more than 50...

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.

INDIAN CREATORS ARE SAYING THAT YouTube's NEW TAX POLICY WILL IMPACT THEIR REVENUE

Highlights

• YouTube said that this new policy will start from as early as June 2021

• All the creators have been informed by YouTube regarding the update and they have also been asked to provide their tax information in their AdSense account on priority basis

EVERYTHING ABOUT YouTube's NEW TAX DEDUCTION POLICY

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• YouTube has also asked creators to submit their tax information to AdSense to determine the correct amount of taxes to deduct

• In an email to the creators, the Google-owned company said that the changes would apply to all creators outside of the US, whi...

CRYPTO NEWS SITE COINDESK’S YOUTUBE LIVE STREAM TAKEN OFF BY YOUTUBE

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•          Youtube took off a live streaming video on “all about bitcoin”

•          Youtube has categorized the violation under its harmful and dangerou...

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

HIGHLIGHTS

• 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...

YouTube, GOOGLE, AND GMAIL ARE WORKING NOW: GOOGLE

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• While Gmail and Google Search were working fine for most of the users, it was YouTube that gave trouble to several thousands of users across the world

• According to Downdetector, more than 79 percent of Gmail users were witnessing problems in logging in...

YouTube SUSPENDS U.S. NEWS CHANNEL OVER MISLEADING INFORMATION CHARGE

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• Online video streaming platform YouTube has decided to suspend a channel named One America News Network (OANN) for sharing misinformation regarding a cure for dreadful COVID-19

• During this period of suspension, no new videos can be uploaded and in orde...

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...

YouTube REFUSES TO TAKE DOWN A VIDEO CLAIMING TRUMP’S VICTORY

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• The video titled “Trump Won. MSM hopes you don’t believe your eyes.” was posted by One American New Network, which is pro-Trump

• According to the YouTube, though this video does violate its advertisement guidelines, it does not violate...

YouTube TAKES DOWN CLIPS SHOWCASING FAKE ELECTION RESULTS

Highlights

• Hours before closing of any of the polls, many YouTube accounts were livestreaming fake U.S. election results to several thousands of viewers

• These videos were showcasing a mock presidential election map filled in with theoretical results and appeared ...

YouTube BROUGHT IN $5 BILLION IN AD REVENUE FOR GOOGLE IN Q3

Highlights

• YouTube currently has more than 30 million music and premium paid subscribers, and over 35 million inclusive of those on free trials

• In third quarter of 2020, online video streaming platform YouTube was successful in bringing in $5 billion in advertisi...