James Hale

• YouTube takes down Nelk’s interview with Trump, citing violations of its election integrity policy
• YouTube Millionaires: Alyssa grew up making YouTube videos with her family. Now her own channel is taking off.

  Alyssa chose to launch her own channel so when she becomes an adult, she'll already have her own platform and audience if she decides to continue doing YouTube.

  
• Instagram drops new educational portal “by creators, for creators”

  For now, the Creator Lab has 18 videos from these first 11 creators, all addressing various branches of three topics: self-expression, building community, and growing long-term.

  
• Twitter taps Facebook’s former teen-in-residence to lead Gen Z push

  In a bid to connect with Gen Z users, the bird app has hired Michael Sayman, Facebook’s former “teen-in-residence” who went on to work at Google and, most recently, Roblox.

  
• Twitter launches new dashboard to remind creators it has monetization now
• Creators On The Rise: AndreaXAndrea was a slime YouTuber. Now? She’s the CEO of her own slime boutique.
• Brandon Sanderson’s record-setting $26 million Kickstarter campaign is the stuff of fantasy
• Netflix wants to know if it’s cake. Takes slice from viral TikTok trend.
• YouTube Millionaires: Matty Benedetto’s fake inventions are helping him build a very real company
• Twitter is trying to delegate fact-checking to volunteer users. So, uh, how’s that working out?
• Netflix acquires second studio to build free video games for its subscribers
• Creators On The Rise: Brady Brandwood jailbroke a grocery store lobster. Now Leon is charming the internet.