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YouTube

What YouTube hustle gurus are really selling you

By Rebecca Jennings March 15

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

By Peter Kafka February 16

Are we too worried about misinformation?

By Peter Kafka January 16

Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws

By Sara Morrison May 24, 2022

Biden threatens Big Tech over its “national experiment” on children

By Shirin Ghaffary March 1, 2022

Big Tech’s Russia problem

By Shirin Ghaffary February 26, 2022

Does banning extremists online work? It depends.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 3, 2022

One Good Thing: Knifepoint Horror, a collection of campfire ghost stories in podcast form

By Aja Romano October 29, 2021

One Good Thing: A YouTube decluttering channel that made my sister and me quit screaming

By Athena Frost October 19, 2021

How Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are handling the Taliban

By Shirin Ghaffary August 18, 2021

Facebook wants creators, but YouTube is paying creators much, much more

By Peter Kafka July 15, 2021

Trump’s lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google will probably go nowhere

By Shirin Ghaffary July 7, 2021

YouTube’s kids app has a rabbit hole problem

By Rebecca Heilweil May 12, 2021

Here’s just how much people have stopped talking about Trump on Facebook and Twitter

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla May 6, 2021

YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

By Rebecca Heilweil April 6, 2021

How YouTube swallowed the world

By Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary March 2, 2021

How neo-Nazis used the internet to instigate a right-wing extremist crisis

By Adam Clark Estes February 2, 2021

Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight

By Rebecca Heilweil December 19, 2020

Twitter joins Facebook and YouTube in banning Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

By Rebecca Heilweil December 16, 2020

How fake news aimed at Latinos thrives on social media

By Shirin Ghaffary November 19, 2020

YouTube is awash with election misinformation — and it isn’t taking it down

By Rebecca Heilweil November 6, 2020

Why the Trump campaign is going all-in on YouTube

By Rebecca Heilweil November 3, 2020

Most Americans think social media companies are censoring people

By Shirin Ghaffary August 19, 2020

How Trump and his son helped make a Covid-19 conspiracy theorist go viral in a matter of hours

By Sara Morrison and Rebecca Heilweil July 28, 2020

How feds used a YouTube livestream to arrest a Portland protester

By Sara Morrison July 21, 2020

The Trump administration’s flawed plan to destroy the internet as we know it

By Sara Morrison June 18, 2020

Why Big Tech isn’t fighting Trump in public this time

By Peter Kafka May 29, 2020

Big Tech thought the pandemic wouldn’t be political. Think again.

By Peter Kafka May 27, 2020

Netflix went down for an hour for some users

By Peter Kafka March 25, 2020

Facebook doubles down on removing coronavirus conspiracy theories

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rebecca Heilweil March 4, 2020

YouTube makes $15 billion a year from ads — and pays more than half of that to video makers

By Peter Kafka February 4, 2020

NikkieTutorials’ coming out brought out the best in the beauty community — for the most part

By Alex Abad-Santos January 15, 2020

Features

Can an online star really make it in Hollywood?

Lilly Singh, Issa Rae, and others have made the leap from online auteurs to bona fide TV personalities. What happens to others who hope to turn followers and views into mainstream careers? We talk to a few who tried.

By Liz Shannon Miller January 3, 2020

YouTube just made sweeping positive changes to its harassment policy. So why all the backlash?

By Aja Romano December 13, 2019

A group of YouTubers is trying to prove the site systematically demonetizes queer content

By Aja Romano October 10, 2019

The story behind Hot Ones, the interview show where celebrities choke down crazy-hot chicken wings

By Peter Kafka September 27, 2019

Facebook and YouTube will keep letting politicians say what they want if it’s “newsworthy”

By Theodore Schleifer September 26, 2019

The most common thing brands don’t understand about working with YouTube stars

By Theodore Schleifer September 9, 2019

The US government isn’t ready to regulate the internet. Today’s Google fine shows why.

By Peter Kafka September 4, 2019

What happened to the formerly fearsome right-wing media troll?

By Peter Kafka August 29, 2019