politics

• Research shows that YouTube Shorts steers from viewers away from political content
• TikTok wants to hire a manager for its news creators

  TikTok has posted a position for a U.S.-based employee who will work alongside the app's community of news and politics creators.

  
• YouTube tells moderators to ease up on political, social, and cultural content

  YouTube is advising its human moderators to let more videos stay up if they flaunt guidelines in categories like news and politics.

  
• 20 years of YouTube: In 2008, we did it live (and voted however we like)

  A Bill O'Reilly viral video, the YouTube Live event, and a parody of a T.I. song captured the creator community's political spirit.

  
• Viewership on political streams is up 56% year-over-year
• Creator content has upended U.S. politics. Now it’s influencing Canada’s elections to the tune of millions of views.
• Substack wants its creators to stick around. A TikTok-style feed will help them promote their newsletters.
• Influencers are shaking up politics by winning elections. A progressive TikToker wants to be next.
• TikTokers are using Shop keywords to band together against ICE
• Trump administration to creators: “You will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House.”
• Trump’s inauguration stream shows that his YouTube presence could play a bigger role during his second term
• Senators who passed the TikTok ban are realizing a lot of people won’t like it