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YouTube TV removed all Disney-Owned channels for a day

After YouTube and Disney fought on Friday, which resulted in channels owned by Disney such as ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, Freeform, National Geographic, and more disappearing from Google’s YouTube TV, they announced they reached a new deal on Sunday. YouTube said it had already started to restore access to Disney-owned networks like ESPN and FX […]

YouTube star MrBeast rethinks old notions of philanthropy

The line of cars started forming at dawn. It was early November in Greenville, North Carolina, and drivers waited in a line that stretched for miles to pick up Thanksgiving turkeys — 10,000 free frozen birds to anyone who asked. Who was behind this act of holiday kindness? A community foundation, perhaps? Or a food […]

NBCU Warns YouTube TV Subscribers Could Be Blacked Out

YouTube said it has been unable to so far reach a new carriage agreement with NBCUniversal. The current contract expires on 30 September. If no new deal is struck by then, NBCUniversal content, such as Sunday Night Football, Jimmy Fallon or Law and Order SVU, will no longer be carried by Youtube TV. NBCUniversal is […]

New Discord feature will bring back YouTube music

Weeks after Discord users witnessed the decease of their favorite music bots due to copyright violations filed by Google, the multimedia communication platform is now integrating YouTube music in a small number of Discord servers as of today. The feature, which is called “Watch Today” provides Discord users with the ability to watch YouTube videos […]

YouTube Music & Premium now boast 50 million subscribers

After almost 6 years since YouTube’s launch, the video streaming site now boasts 50 million Music and Premium subscribers. The milestone marks a 30 percent increase from December of last year, which indicates that a great number of users are willing to enhance their free YouTube experience by paying to subscribe to the premium version.  […]

YouTube removes over 1 million COVID-19 misinformation videos

YouTube announced on Wednesday that it has removed over 1 million COVID-19 misinformation videos. The video-based platform has being removing content related to false cures and claims of coronavirus being a fraud since February 2020, YouTube’s chief product officer Neal Mohan wrote in a blogpost. Based on the data, the company removed around 10 million […]

Facebook, YouTube: Firm must stop scraping faces from sites

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Facebook joined YouTube, Twitter and payment service Venmo on Wednesday in demanding that a facial recognition company stop harvesting user images to identify the people in them, which the startup does as part of its work with police. Facebook said it has demanded New York-based Clearview AI stop accessing […]