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• Sephora Severs Product Partnership With YouTuber Olivia Jade In Wake Of College Bribery Scandal
• After YouTube Disables Comments On ‘Special Books By Special Kids’ Organization’s Channel, Founders Say It’s Discrimination

  Recently, YouTube disabled comments on tens of millions of videos featuring minors as part of its increasingly aggressive crackdown on child predation. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcikci said the mass disabling was a “trade-off” for creators, who’d have to deal with it if they wanted YouTube to be safer for kids.

  
• No, Twitter Is Not Completely Removing Likes And Retweets — But Here’s Why It’s Hiding Them

  Yesterday, Twitter users reacted mostly negatively to the widely-reported news that the social media app was looking at removing engagement metrics from tweets. The move, which is being tested on Twitter’s new public beta app ‘Twittr,’ would hide the number of likes and retweets a tweet has gotten.

  
• Insights: Has All Of “Social Media,” Not Just Facebook, Reached A Pivot Point?

  Facebook's dubious "pivot to privacy" comes amid a much bigger pivot transforming all of social media away from the strengths of. both Facebook and Google.

  
• Creators Going Pro: How The ‘Cyanide & Happiness’ Team Went From Drawing On Wallpaper To Managing A Full-Scale YouTube Animation Studio
• YouTube Terminates All ‘SevenAwesomeKids’ Channels After Owner Ian Rylett Pleads Guilty To Child Abuse
• Twitter Launches Improved In-App Camera With 280-Second Video Limit
• MrBeast Drops Video Of Real Life, EA-Sponsored ‘Apex Legends’ Battle Starring 39 YouTubers Competing For $200,000
• YouTube Premium, YouTube Music Roll Out To Critical Indian Market
• Netflix “Doubling Down” On Interactive Content After Success Of ‘Bandersnatch’
• YouTube Star Olivia Jade Emerges As Beneficiary In College Bribery Scandal
• After Laying Off 250 Staffers, Vice Is Now Looking To Raise $200 Million (Report)
• Early U.K. YouTube Stars Tanya Burr And Jim Chapman Announce Separation
• Facebook Watch’s New Video Incubator To Act As Matchmaker For Publishers, Influencers
• Man Arrested After Driving Across U.S. To Confront Google Employees He Suspected Shut Down His YouTube Channel
• Nikita Dragun Launches Makeup Brand Targeting Transgender Wearers — And Beyond
• YouTube TV Taps NBCUniversal Vet Lori Conkling To Oversee Global Partnerships
• CAA Continues Foray Into Gaming Creator Space With ‘Criken’, Elspeth Eastman (Exclusive)
• Quibi Poaches CBS Executive Becky Brooks To Lead Lifestyle Programming Under Janice Min
• Logan Paul Investigates One Of YouTube’s Top Conspiracies In ‘Flat Earth: To The Edge And Back’
• YouTube’s ‘Stories’ Feature Adds AR Selfie Filters, Like Snapchat Lenses
• Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi To Produce ‘Frat Boy Genius,’ A Withering Look At Evan Spiegel
• Digital Brand Architects Signs Donal Skehan, Chantelle Paige-Mulligan After UTA Acquisition
• YouTube Terminated Yeah1’s MCN Status, So It’s Selling ScaleLab Back To Original Owners For $12 Million