YouTube and Society

YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories to provide alternative viewpoints on controversial subjects... (2018)

TechCrunch, 2017: “What do you get if you endlessly recombine Spiderman and the Joker with Elsa from Frozen and lashings of product placement for ... (2017)

Unethical growth hacks: A look into the growing Youtube news bot epidemic When my team and I built Snapzu, a community platform for bloggers and... (2018)

Views are currency on YouTube, and the existence of fake ones creates questions for all videos. (2018)

YouTube will increase the number of ads that some users see between music videos, part of a strategy to convince more of its billion-plus viewers t... (2018)

Extremist propaganda, dangerous hoaxes, videos of tasered rats—the company is having its worst year ever. Except financially... (2018)

The platform’s entertainment for children is weirder—and more globalized—than adults could have expected. (2018)

Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential pr... (2019)

What if stemming the tide of misinformation on YouTube means punishing some of its biggest stars? (2019)

Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say. (2019)