Ruby Franke, Jodi Hildebrandt sentenced to prison in child abuse case
Parenting YouTuber Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt have been sentenced on child abuse charges.
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Parenting YouTuber Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt have been sentenced on child abuse charges.
Snaphat, TikTok, Youtube and others generated billions in profits last year from advertising targeting young users, a Harvard study shows.
A study from Harvard says social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year.
YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including requiring creators to reveal whether they've used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.
The Supreme Court is for the first time considering the scope of Section 230, which provides legal immunity to online companies for content posted by third parties.
One of the cases involves Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Paris in the 2015 ISIS attacks.
A new study evaluated Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and Youtube's policies to keep LGBTQ people safe — and gave each a failing grade.
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a message to Russian soldiers and citizens Thursday, appealing to them to recognize the lies being spread by their government's propaganda about the war in Ukraine.
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas Thursday to Silicon Valley social media giants Meta, Alphabet, Twitter and Reddit after receiving 'inadequate responses' to voluntary requests for information.
More than 80 checking organizations called on YouTube this week to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform.
Senators put executives from YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on the defensive Tuesday, questioning them about what they're doing to ensure young users' safety on their platforms.
KPIX reporter Betty Yu is speaking out after racist remarks about her were posted by conservative YouTube host Steven Crowder.
The San Bruno City Council formally approved a pair of ordinances Tuesday that will pave the way the video-streaming platform YouTube to expand its headquarters at the Bayhill Office Park.
The video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno said it will no longer allow users to baselessly speculate that approved vaccines, like the ones given to prevent the flu or measles, are dangerous or cause diseases.
Democrat Kevin Paffrath shook up the recall debate stage Wednesday in his first appearance alongside three Republican rivals, accusing them of lacking bold plans and pitching himself as the best option to lead California should voters remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.
It's a very long shot, but Kevin Paffrath could conceivably win simply because he has some name recognition by virtue of the nearly 1.7 million followers of his video channel, where he dispenses financial advice..
Police in Pittsburg on Monday arrested a juvenile suspect who allegedly robbed a bank with a fake explosive device and said he watched a YouTube video beforehand on how to do so.
YouTube says it is extending its suspension of President Donald Trump's channel for seven more days.
Add YouTube to the growing list of online social media outlets that have suspended President Donald Trump.
Federal regulators ordered Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok's parent and other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they collect and use consumers' personal data.
An outage was affecting YouTube and YouTubeTV Wednesday, and the streaming video giant said it was working on a fix.
YouTube took steps to limit QAnon and other baseless conspiracy theories that can lead to real-world violence, the website announced Thursday.
For months before a scam co-opting the accounts of several famous people on Twitter was revealed and quickly quashed last week, a similar scheme was being perpetrated on YouTube using images of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Tesla founder Elon Musk and others, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
Paul L. Vasquez, the burly mountain man whose psychedelic reaction upon seeing a double rainbow propelled him to Internet stardom and turned him into a folk hero, has died in Central California. He was 57.
The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 -- exactly 15 years ago.
