The video giant’s recent travails underscore a basic question: How “neutral” should social-media platforms try to be?

As soon as the dark blue Ford Mondeo pulled to a stop on Gordon Road that night, the 16-year-old boy standing at the side of the road knew he had made a mistake. He had been tricked into the rendezvous by an acquaintance. Driving the car was Isaac Donkoh, 21, a local rapper who also ran a gang in the Beckton E6 postcode area, a dreary neighbourhood in the east of London. It is best-known for being the home of the world's largest gasworks. Donkoh's crew that night consisted of four teenagers — two other 16-year-olds and two 14-year-olds.

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Steven Crowder’s case is a perfect example.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says while the company will work to remove as much harmful content as possible, it can't remove all of it.

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For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.

Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

“I’m a history teacher, not someone who promotes hatred.”

YouTube is changing its community guidelines to ban videos promoting the superiority of any group as a justification for discrimination against others based on their age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, the company said today. The move, which will result in the removal of all videos promoting Nazism and other discriminatory ideologies, is expected to result in the removal of thousands of channels across YouTube.

A YouTube star who tricked a homeless man into eating biscuits filled with toothpaste and then posted footage of the incident online has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay his victim €20,000 in “moral damages”. A judge in Barcelona also banned Kanghua Ren, better known as ReSet, from having any social media accounts for five years.

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.

YouTube's standalone gaming interface didn't prove popular with users.

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the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.

It’s a long-observed fact that the phenomenon of the YouTube let’s play has benefits beyond just entertaining viewers and gradually introducing teenagers to neo

James Charles has lost more than a million subscribers amidst a row with fellow YouTube star Tati Westbrook. He now has 14.6m subscribers - previously the figure was 16m, according to the website Social Blade . It comes in a week where the 19-year-old has denied using his fame and money to try and manipulate someone's sexuality. Meanwhile his row with Westbrook centres around him promoting a rival product to one she'd created.