YouTube

• YouTube Will Pay $170 Million, Make Sweeping Changes To Children’s Content In FTC Settlement
• YouTube Hands Out Grants To 8 Indian Creators As Part Of $20 Million ‘Learning Fund’

  At the second annual New Delhi gathering for EduCon -- a conference series organized by YouTube globally that seeks to connect 'EduTubers' with pertinent resources and one another, which was attended by 200 creators -- the video giant doled out grants to eight education-focused vloggers.

  
• YouTube Now Requires Creators To Manually Approve Crowdsourced Video Translations To Clamp Down On Trolls

  YouTube has made a significant change to the way that video translations can be crowdsourced after it found that participants were using the Community Contributions feature to harass and troll.

  
• YouTube Has Removed 100,000 Videos, 17,000 Channels After Implementing June ‘Hate Speech’ Policy

  In a corporate blog post shared today following YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s letter to creators about the importance of an open platform, the company launched a four-part series in outlining its multi-pronged plan of attack against harmful content: remove it, raise authoritative voices, reward trusted creators, and reduce the spread of content that brushes up against policy lines.

  
• FTC Fines Google $150-$200 Million For YouTube’s Child Data Privacy Violations (Report)
• YouTube Says Abbreviated Subscriber Counts, Launching Next Week, Are Meant To Protect Creators’ Wellbeing
• YouTube Millionaires: Caleb Hyles Covers Everything From Anime Themes To Disney Megahits To “Old Town Road” — With A Twist
• YouTube Re-Bans InfoWars Channel After It Temporarily Circumvented The Site’s Terms Of Service
• Twitch Poaches Top YouTube ‘Fortnite’ Player Nick Eh 30 For Exclusive Livestreaming Deal
• Creators Going Pro: CEO Ryan McNulty Is “A Serial Entrepreneur” Whose First Business Was His Own YouTube Channel
• YouTube Expands New “Borderline Content”-Hunting Algorithm To The U.K.
• Amid Objectionable Content Controversies, Susan Wojcicki Defends “Openness” Of YouTube Platform