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Why so many of your favorite YouTube videos are secretly infomercials

Abby Ohlheiser The Washington Post
Aug 31, 2019 6:00 am - The Try Guys are playing Jenga Truth or Dare, dressed in animal onesies and having a great time for their 6 million YouTube fans. On the surface, it's a typical video fr...
A viral Instagram hoax dupes A-listers - and the man overseeing our nuclear arsenal

Hannah Knowles The Washington Post
Aug 22, 2019 1:00 am - The ramifications of Instagram's supposedly new "rule where they can use your photos" weren't totally clear. But the warnings multiplied rapidly online: Your posts could...
Republican groups vow to stop buying Twitter ads until McConnell campaign account is unfrozen

By Felicia Sonmez The Washington Post
Aug 08, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - A move by Twitter to freeze the account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign has prompted a backlash by President Donald Trump's campaign an...
YouTube overhauled its algorithms for kids' content amid FTC talks

Mark Bergen Bloomberg
Aug 03, 2019 6:00 am - In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems “quality” children's content, sending waves of traffic to certain video producers...
FTC to ask about disabling YouTube ads for kids' privacy

By Ben Brody Bloomberg
Jul 08, 2019 1:00 am - The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission asked children's privacy advocates whether having video creators on YouTube disable ads could resolve concerns the site is v...
Facebook to ban census interference to allay worries

By Naomi Nix Bloomberg
Jul 01, 2019 1:00 am - Facebook will ban content that misrepresents the 2020 U.S. census to suppress participation by minority communities, the latest step by the social media company to quell...
'Goosebumps and tears': A WWII veteran's harmonica rendition of anthem makes him a viral star

By Allyson Chiu The Washington Post
May 28, 2019 1:00 am - Don't call Peter B. DuPré a musician. That's not how the 96-year-old World War II veteran would describe himself. "I am a harmonica player," DuPré, who spent three years...
White House starts campaign asking internet users to share censorship stories

By Tony Romm The Washington Post
May 16, 2019 1:00 am - The White House on Wednesday announced a campaign asking internet users to share if they had been censored on Facebook, Google and Twitter, tapping into President Donald...
YouTube star from Bloomingdale to be sentenced in Chicago in child porn case

Associated Press
May 03, 2019 1:00 am - A star YouTube singer with a large teenage following is scheduled to be sentenced in Chicago federal court for coercing six girls to send him sexually explicit videos. A...
Facebook bans Farrakhan, Jones, Yiannopoulos as 'dangerous'

By Elizabeth Dwoskin The Washington Post
May 02, 2019 1:00 am - Facebook said Thursday it has permanently banned several far-right figures and organizations, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, Infowars host Alex Jones,...

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