Some of the biggest companies in the world are funding climate misinformation by advertising on YouTube, according to a study from activist group Avaaz. The group found that more than 100 brands had adverts running on YouTube videos on the site that were actively promoting climate misinformation. The brands, including Samsung, L’Oreal and Decathlon, were unaware that their adverts were being played before and during the videos.

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YouTuber Simone Giertz gave up wildly popular but barely functioning machines and confronted her fears of imperfection (while facing her own mortality and making an awesome Truckla EV).

Forget lemonade stands. The big money is in children making content for children.

The study comes after a series of New York Times articles published earlier this year about radicalization on Google-owned YouTube.

Previous attempts to curb harassment haven't succeeded, casting doubt on new try.

Watching old videos or listening to bygone radio shows might help you unearth fascinating memories from your older relatives.

YouTube channels posing as American news outlets racked up millions of views on false and inflammatory videos over several months this year, all with the help of YouTube's recommendation engine.

(plus Year End Awards!)

The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.

They scrub the internet of violent and disturbing content, and it haunts them forever.

Team Trees confirmed the achievement in an Instagram post.

- Rod Phillips

Google is using full-screen pop-up ads to promote YouTube Premium subscriptions.

YouTube's annual Rewind video was released Thursday, and has already accrued significantly more dislikes than likes from upset users.

The Internet giant says it cancelled everyone's crypto sites by accident last week and that all of them are back online. Our national nightmare is over. Except for one big problem.

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.

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A YouTube star has been banned from the platform for five years after he made a video tricking a homeless person into eating Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste and then joking they would clean him. 21-year-old Chinese YouTuber Kanghua Ren, creator of the popular channel ReSet, was given the unusual sentence by a judge for the video posted in January 2017.