How Parsons Green bomber was radicalised by YouTube videos and duped security officials into …
THE Parsons Green Tube bomber was a lone wolf who was radicalised by watching YouTube videos, it can be revealed as he faces life behind bars. Orphan Ahmed Hassan, 18, was furious with Britain for not granting him asylum and blamed Tony Blair for the death of his father in …
People think this pretty dog looks like a ‘YouTube influencer’
We all know the social media influencer type. She's tall, blonde, fit, and somehow manages to squeeze making vlogs in between running her marketing company and what seems like constant baking—all while maintaining a 20-step skincare routine and a perfectly tousled ponytail. This influencer looks … Read More
BET & YouTube Partner for #FreestyleFridayBET
Beginning the ramp-up to its 2018 BET Experience & Awards, BET Networks — in partnership with YouTube — is bringing back the #FreestyleFridayBET hottest MC contest. Beginning Friday (March 16), rap contenders can qualify for entry by subscribing to the BET Networks YouTube channel and then … Read More
Woman Who Fatally Shot Boyfriend In YouTube Video Prank Officially Receives 180-Day Jail …
The legal fallout relating to a YouTube video-related fatality has officially been resolved. Monalisa Perez, who shot her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz as part of an ill-conceived stunt the couple planned to post on their YouTube channel, has accepted an 180-day jail sentence stemming from manslaughter … Read More
YouTube’s Favorite Music Critic Is 11 Years Old
Ruairi's YouTube videos feature him sitting face-to-camera in front of a bookshelf against a green painted wall talking about the latest and greatest in hip hop or cutting-edge music. The majority of his videos, and the format he has become best known for, are "react" videos featuring his father. Read …
Apple takes a very un-tech approach to solving fake news: human editors
Meanwhile the YouTube video network, fighting a backlash against conspiracy videos that anyone can post to its platform, went in a totally different direction to battle fakeness—turning to crowd-sourced Wikipedia to provide viewers with links to what it hopes are authoritative viewpoints. Let's take a look … Read More
The Lonely Nostalgia YouTube Playlist
The “Africa” edit, per The New Yorker, is part of a growing genre of lonely nostalgic music popular on YouTube and SoundCloud. (You won't find these edits on a more tightly controlled platform like Spotify.) It's also similar to the least silly of the many YouTube edits of Childish Gambino's …
Social Feed: Twitter is not kidding, YouTube goes dark, Facebook says game on
Social Feed is a collection of those smaller changes that you may have missed with this week's biggest news — like Twitter's deals with NASCAR and MLS; YouTube's Wikipedia verification plan; Snapchat's 3D-modeling patent; and Facebook's MLB deal. Find Social Feed every weekend for the latest … Read More
Don’t Ask Wikipedia to Cure the Internet
On stage at the South by Southwest conference on Tuesday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that her company would begin adding "information cues" to conspiracy theory videos, text-based links intended to provide users with better information about what they are watching. One of the sites … Read More
YouTube Music head talks premium subscription ambitions
“Did you know that 80 percent of all of watch time on YouTube is recommended by a recommendation engine?” said Cohen, adding that the company now has a “division solely focused on building and growing the playlist ecosystem that users would love across both paid and [the] ad-supported tier.”. Read …