YouTube Finally Shuts Down Extremist Muslim Cleric’s Videos
YouTube has removed thousands of videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, the Islamic hate preacher that inspired terrorists including the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino shooters.

YouTube has removed thousands of videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, the Islamic hate preacher that inspired terrorists including the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino shooters.
From Keurig to the NFL, virtue-signalling is now associated with PR disasters. Has the time for its opposite, vice-signalling, finally come?
An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal argues that special legal protections for social media platforms ought to be tied to their upholding of free speech.
A mother in North Carolina has been arrested after posting videos to YouTube of her allegedly breaking into buildings with her children. Fox 8 reports that Ashley Ball in Randolph County has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering and
Tom Steyer’s lawyers sent a breach of contract letter on Friday to Fox News Channel demanding that the network start running his ads urging viewers to sign an online petition telling Congress to impeach President Trump.
(Reuters) BRUSSELS — Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube and Microsoft on Tuesday agreed to an EU code of conduct to tackle online hate speech within 24 hours in Europe.
YouTube removed a parody video that mocked them last week, before reposting it following community backlash.
PragerU, the conservative digital media organization from Dennis Prager, is suing YouTube and its parent Google over alleged censorship of their videos.
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas discussed his expose of bias at the New York Times with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released a follow-up to its exposé of bias at the New York Times earlier this week. This time, the target is YouTube, the ubiquitous video-sharing platform owned by technology giant Google.
YouTube has reportedly altered their search algorithm to promote mainstream news sources after searches for the Las Vegas shooting returned conspiracy theory videos.
Google Americas President Allan Thygesen commented on the company’s advertising problems during a panel discussion on Tuesday, where he admitted the faults in the system.
YouTube is reportedly blocking content creators from linking their Patreon accounts at the end of videos unless they’re monetized through the platform’s Partner Program.
E-commerce giant Amazon has claimed that Google is no longer supporting YouTube playback on the Amazon Echo Show device.
Pittsburgh Steelers fans are so incensed at their team for sitting out the National Anthem on Sunday that they are posting videos online of themselves torching their Steelers gear.
The couple behind the popular ‘DaddyOFive’ YouTube channel has been sentenced to five years probation on charges of child neglect.
YouTube’s algorithms, which are used to censor and demonetize videos on the platform, are killing its creators, according to a report.
67 percent of Americans claim to have received their news through social media at some point, according to a report.
The social media giant Facebook joins Apple in the quest for a piece of the entertainment streaming pie.
YouTube has continued to demonetize videos from popular content creators, now effecting interviewer Dave Rubin and fast food reviewer TheReportOfTheWeek.
YouTube has reportedly demonetized a number of videos from former presidential candidate Ron Paul following an announcement that the company would be censoring the platform to an even greater degree.
Google began to “police YouTube like it never has before” Thursday, cracking down further on “offensive content,” according to a report.
YouTube temporarily suspended the account of the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units, better known as the YPG, on Wednesday. The account was reactivated Thursday morning after the YPG objected to what they thought was the permanent termination of their account.
Twitter thread genius Thomas Wictor has become the latest victim of the liberal-left tech sector’s war on free speech.
Iran’s new communications minister said Tuesday that negotiations were underway with Twitter to unblock the service, which has been banned for years despite being used even by the country’s supreme leader.
Google’s interview process is notoriously difficult, stretching the brainpower of the brightest whiz kids from the top schools in the country to determine if they are good enough to join the best. But Google’s focus has shifted its focus markedly, from being the best tech company on Earth to being the Internet’s morality police force — and its interview process will have to change to keep up.
YouTube allegedly demonetized the vast majority of videos posted on “The Viewer’s View” channel, hosted by Diamond and Silk. The duo believes this was due to their vocal support of President Trump.
The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, responded in Fortune to the recent viewpoint diversity memo by James Damore. She claimed that she had faced massive discrimination for being a woman working in the technology industry, and that implicit biases still exist within it, despite exact claims to the contrary in Damore’s memo.
In response to government pressure to tackle extremism, YouTube plans to crack down on “hate speech” by artificially suppressing videos.
An aspiring YouTube star has killed her boyfriend after shooting him in a video blog gone wrong.
A judge granted one Texas man’s request to legally change his last name to “Trump” in an homage to the president.
Google recently announced new plans to fight the spread of terrorism-related content on the YouTube Platform.
CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago singer with hundreds of thousands of teenage followers online faces child pornography charges for allegedly instructing two young female fans to send him sexually explicit videos of themselves.
Theresa May, the newly re-elected British Prime Minister spoke at a press conference on Tuesday ahead of a visit to meet with the French President Emmanuel Macron, revealing that the two countries would be working together to push a new legal liability on social media and technology companies to remove “unacceptable” content that is promoted on their platforms.
Amazon is mobilizing a July 12 collective “Day of Action” for tech corporations and social justice warriors to unite in rebelling against the FCC’s efforts to overturn Net Neutrality. The 12th falls on the 96th anniversary of Lenin’s call to deploy Russian communists to start civil wars around the world.
(Reuters) — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks, according to several sources familiar with the situation.
Donald Trump’s weekly presidential addresses have become YouTube hits. Unlike the addresses of past presidents — which attracted little attention — Trump’s videos have “become surprise online blockbusters — with record numbers of Internet viewers,” the Boston Globe’s Annie Linskey reports.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologized to major advertisers last Thursday for not dealing with “offensive” content on the platform.
The mother of a “white boy from Devon” who left a bomb on a London underground train has called for YouTube to be banned, blaming the video sharing platform for corrupting her son. Student Damon Smith, 20, faces years in prison
(Reuters) — Social media were heavily criticized by a committee of British lawmakers on Monday for failing to do enough to remove illegal and extremist material posted on their sites, and for not preventing it appearing in the first place.