James Hale

• Creators Going Pro: CEO Ryan McNulty Is “A Serial Entrepreneur” Whose First Business Was His Own YouTube Channel
• Facebook Is Developing ‘Threads,’ An Instagram-Adjacent Messaging App That Automatically Shares Location, Battery Life Data (Report)

  Facebook may have just paid a record $5 billion fine for mishandling users’ data, but that’s not stopping it from developing a new Instagram-adjacent messaging app that’s intended to let users constantly, automatically share personal information about themselves, including location data and their devices’ battery levels.

  
• YouTube Expands New “Borderline Content”-Hunting Algorithm To The U.K.

  In January, YouTube introduced a new algorithm trained to hunt down “borderline content,” aka videos that don’t actually violate its Community Guidelines, but which can still “misinform users in harmful ways.” The algorithm doesn’t remove said videos from YouTube, but instead prevents YouTube’s recommendation algorithm from spreading them.

  
• Creators On The Rise: 12-Year-Old Gavin Magnus’ Subscriber Count And Monthly Views Skyrocketed After His Music Video “Crushin”

  Gavin Magnus was just nine years old when he realized he wanted to be a content creator. Like literally millions of other kids these days, one of his main sources of entertainment was YouTube, but Magnus wasn’t content with just watching other creators’ videos. He wanted to make his own.

  
• YouTuber Olly Thorn Raises $100,000+ By Livestreaming Shakespeare Readings Around The Clock For 4 Days
• The YouTube Radicalization Pipeline Exists, And It’s Driving Users Toward Increasingly Alt-Right Content (Study)
• YouTube Embraces PewDiePie After Two-Year Cold Shoulder, Congratulates Him On 100 Million Subs
• Bernie Su’s Livestreamed Interactive Sci-Fi Series ‘Artificial’ Brings Twitch Its First Emmy
• Google Agrees To Meet With The YouTubers Union, But Says It Won’t “Negotiate Their Demands”
• YouTube Updates Child Safety Policies To Remove Adult-Themed Videos Aimed At Kids
• Instagram, Facing Pressure From Facebook, Is Testing Back-To-Back Ads In Stories (Report)
• YouTube Millionaires: Murray SawChuck Uses YouTube To Bring The World A Whole Lot Of Magic