Hundreds of online videos are removed for breaking rules on nudity and sexual conduct after a BBC investigation.

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Almost a complete reversal of new policies

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.

- A Dose of Buckley

We already know that “Numb”, the massive single from Linkin Park’s 2003 album Meteora, is one of the biggest rock songs of the past 20 years as well. It’s played in near-universal rotation on most rock radio stations, and “Numb” is also the band’s most-viewed video on Youtube as well. However, the video just reached another major milestone on Youtube earlier today, cementing its place in music history.

Creators describe it as "kind of detrimental."

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The Google-owned company also removed 100,000 videos, a spike in takedowns since its new hate speech policy went into effect in June.

Channel owners will now have to manually approve each contribution

The fine, from the Federal Trade Commission, could have significant repercussions for other social media platforms that are popular with children.

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.

Google announced Thursday that it had disabled 210 YouTube channels that were uploading videos "in a coordinated manner" about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.

Streaming music apps have been looking at ways to add value to the in-app experience for both users and artists alike.

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

YouTubers can get their entire channels demonetized, losing out on their livelihoods, only for YouTube to restore their channels without explanation.

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.

'Forcing animals to fight is not allowed on YouTube,' the site's guidelines state

Minecraft and gaming creators were allegedly affected.

YouTube views can translate into serious dollars, but if you're a student athlete, you may want to think twice about trying to earn money on the platform. A football player for the University of Central Florida has lost his place in the team, and hence his scholarship, due to his YouTube channel. UCF kicker Donald De La Haye runs "Deestroying," which has over 90,000 subscribers and has amassed 5 million views, thus far. It's not the channel itself that cost him his scholarship, though -- it's the fact that he has athletics-related videos on a monetized account.