Creators are freaking out over YouTube's new terms of service which state that the company can delete an account if it determines the user is "no longer commercially viable."

Almost a complete reversal of new policies

A group of YouTube stars have raised more than $6m (£4.7m) to plant trees around the world by rallying their huge numbers of subscribers. The American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, was challenged on Reddit in May to plant 20m trees to celebrate reaching 20 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, where he posts videos of extravagant stunts.

Rich Abernathy was filming a dive for YouTube when he found an old GoPro partly buried in the muck. “It’s like he’s right here,” said Robin McCrear of seeing the video footage of her son, Richard Lee Ragland III, who died in 2017.

Opinion: The case against YouTube's toxic "up next" algorithm.

Kids watch a ton of YouTube. And for months, the Federal Trade Commission has reportedly been investigating the service for harvesting their data and selling it to advertisers. But experts consulted by the FTC believe the agency is about to go easy on the Google-owned platform by putting the onus on content creators to turn off ads for kids under 13, rather than segregate children’s programming onto a separate “YouTube Kids” service.

NOTE: The FTC will host an IN-PERSON press conference at FTC Headquarters, at 600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington D.

Creators describe it as "kind of detrimental."

YouTube is rolling out changes to its verification program for creators, making it tougher for growing channels to earn a checkmark beside their name and removing verification badges from people who don’t meet the heightened criteria.

YouTube will tweak its algorithm to recommend less content that “comes close” to violating site rules, the company announced Friday. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm suggests new videos for viewers, but some genres of videos, especially conspiracy videos, have been criticized for their frequent appearance in those recommendations.

The ranks of people who believe the Earth is flat are being helped by YouTube, suggests a US study.

Scores of YouTube videos with tens of millions of views are being inundated with comments by paedophiles, with adverts from major brands running alongside the disturbing content

“Sideways for attention. Longways for results,” a man says in the middle of a cartoon.

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Efforts to tackle inappropriate children’s content had unintended effect, pushing creators into legal gray zones.

Kids are obsessed with YouTube unboxing videos. The toy industry is taking notice.

YouTube has denied that it is cancelling high-end dramas and comedies on its paid service platform, refuting the claims made in a report earlier on Sunday. A Bloomberg report said, citing sources, that the platform has stopped accepting new pitches for high-budget scripted shows and that it had canceled high end dramas and comedies.

Danny Philippou is mad. He’s practically standing on top of his chair as his twin brother and fellow YouTube creator Michael stares on in amusement. Logan Paul, perhaps YouTube’s most notorious character, laughs on the other side of the desk that they’re all sitting around for an episode of his popular podcast Impaulsive. Anyone who’s watched the Philippous’ channel, RackaRacka, won’t be surprised by Danny’s antics. This is how he gets when he’s excited or angry. This time, he’s both.

Syfy may have pulled the plug on their planned Tremors TV series starring Kevin Bacon – the pilot episode was filmed but has still not yet been released – but that wasn’t actually the first attempt to bring the film franchise to the small screen. Back in 2003, a Michael Gross-starring “Tremors” series actually made it one full season, with 13 episodes airing in total.

With billions of hours of YouTube content viewed daily, this social media network is a key enabler for anti-vaxxers to espouse anti-vaccination sentiments.  According to a new study published in Vaccine on April 3, 2019, much of this content is meant to influence or reinforce public opinion on a variety of topics, including vaccines.