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YouTube posted information on its official blog about its plan for removing harmful content. It is part of YouTube's effort to live up to their responsibility while preserving the power of an open platform. The plan consists of four principles: Remove content that violates YouTube's policy as quickly as possible Raise up authoritative voices when people are looking for breaking news
YouTube has announced additional changes to its manual claiming policies that are intended to improve fairness in the creator ecosystem, while still respecting owners' rights to prevent unlicensed use of content. This balancing act may, or may not, work out as people might hope it would. One concerning trend we've seen is aggressive manual claiming of very short music clips
YouTube posted information today about ways they are giving users more control over their Homepage and Up Next videos. This appears to be done in response to users telling YouTube that they wanted more control over what they see. Connecting our users with the content they love is important to us. We want to help viewers find new interests and
The YouTube Kids app was designed for children who were age 13 or younger. According to Bloomberg, most of the children who are watching YouTube don't use YouTube Kids. Children who do watch YouTube Kids tend to shift over to YouTube's main site before they hit thirteen, according to multiple people at YouTube familiar with internal data. One person who
The Trump Administration has launched a web survey for people to use if they feel they have been wrongly censored on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. The survey was created with the online form-building tool Typeform. The first page of the survey says: SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS should advance FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Yet too many Americans have seen their accounts suspended,
Amazon and Google announced that in the coming months, the two companies will launch the official YouTube app on Amazon Fire TV devices and Fire TV Edition smart TVs, as well as the Prime Video app for streaming to Chromecast and Chromecast built-in devices. In addition, Prime Video will be broadly available across Android TV device partners, and the YouTube
What happens when a company allows everyone to use its website to post videos of whatever they want? Some people will post videos that are filled with misinformation. Others will post videos that seem to be intended to stoke hate or to provoke viewers into causing harm to people who are different from themselves. Bloomberg posted a detailed article that