Online video production company MrBeast says it has fired somewhere between 5 to 10 employees following an investigation into the YouTube empire’s workplace culture.

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Arkansas has sued YouTube and its parent company Alphabet, saying the video-sharing platform is deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth.

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize.

The Houston-based production company, Texas-Pictures is telling the stories of people who lost loved ones to fentanyl.

Donald Trump’s campaign has fully embraced the bravado-filled, macho, often contrarian online spaces of younger men on livestreaming platforms.

Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died.

A confidential memo shows that MrBeast has ordered a full assessment of the internal culture in his YouTube empire and an investigation into “allegations of inappropriate behavior by people in the company."

YouTube’s biggest star MrBeast is facing complaints about the safety of contestants from the preliminary round of his ambitious “Beast Games” game show, which boasts 1,000 competitors hoping for a $5 million grand prize.

MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used inappropriate language in his early online days, as numerous controversies bubbled up around him and a former collaborator.

YouTube is changing its rules to protect its youngest users from potentially harmful firearm videos.

The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song says.

Hong Kong’s leader says his government will keep monitoring for any non-compliance with a court order that bans a popular protest song.

YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong to comply with a removal order, days after a court approved an injunction to ban the song in the city.

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Misinformation about India's election is surging online as the world's most populous country votes.

While a bill to ban TikTok if it doesn't change owners has received President Joe Biden's signature, it could still be years before the popular video-sharing app is actually blocked from U.S. app stores — if it is blocked at all.

Cambodian authorities are investigating the abuse of monkeys at the famous Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This year’s WrestleMania is just days away, but WWE’s marketing campaign for its biggest premium live event of the year was kicked into overdrive months ago.

The Oscars have been handed out, and maybe there's a film you missed and want to watch.

As WWE gears up for its biggest annual premium live event next month, the company continues to harness the power of its social media presence to reach its fans.

Mexico’s president has again lashed out at social media platform YouTube for taking down part of his daily news briefing where he revealed a reporter’s phone number.

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Rockbridge County school leaders are taking legal action against popular social media sites, with plans to join a lawsuit alongside over 400 school divisions nationwide.

A graphic video from a Pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father that circulated for hours on YouTube has put a spotlight yet again on gaps in social media companies’ ability to prevent horrific postings from spreading across the web.

After a bruising year for the film industry, Christopher Nolan's atomic hit “Oppenheimer” has emerged the winner of the Academy Awards nomination race.

A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.

A trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies has sued Ohio over a pending law that requires children to get parental consent to use social media apps.

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Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents.

Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Todd Haynes’ “May December” and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” got a leading five nominations, including best feature, from the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

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YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including requiring creators to reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.

Here you can find live coverage of the halftime performance from one of Roanoke County’s high schools.

Here you can find live coverage of the halftime performance from one of Roanoke County’s high schools.

Here you can find live coverage of the halftime performance from one of Roanoke County’s high schools.

Artificial intelligence tools that can conjure whimsical artwork or realistic-looking images from written commands started wowing crowds last year.

YouTube says Russell Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site after several women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned influencer.

Google is introducing its artificially intelligent chatbot named Bard to other members of its digital family — including Gmail, Maps and YouTube — as it seeks to ward off competitive threats posed by similar technology run by Open AI and Microsoft.

India has launched its first space mission to study the sun, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south pole region of the moon.

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Children's advocacy groups including Fairplay and Common Sense Media are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google, saying the tech giant serves personalized ads to kids on YouTube despite federal law prohibiting the practice.

Children in Georgia would need their parents' permission to create social media accounts if some top Republicans in the state get their way next year.

A man charged in the Capitol riot who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s Washington home will remain in jail while he awaits trial.

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YouTube says it will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election and other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by widespread fraud, errors or glitches.

The firing of two employees at a religious school in western New York is fanning the culture wars roiling parts of the United States.

YouTube is great at sending users videos that it thinks they'll like based on their interests.

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Frantic calls from witnesses reporting a mass shooting at a Louisville bank were released Wednesday by police — including from a woman who was on a virtual meeting and saw the shooter, as well as one from the man’s mother, who told a 911 operator that her son “currently has a gun and is heading toward” the bank, the AP reported.

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Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the cast of “Ted Lasso” and the web series that gave us a kid loving corn are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards.

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In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter who was killed in a terrorist attack.

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.

A longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company’s creation is stepping down as YouTube’s CEO.

Ohio’s governor wants to require parental consent for kids under 16 to get new accounts on TikTok, Snapchat and other social media and gaming platforms.

Dozens of Iraqi residents and activists are protesting in the city of Diwaniyah days after a 22-year-old YouTube star was killed allegedly by her father.

Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem in the mental health crisis among youth.

The public school district in Seattle is suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

YouTube TV has emerged as the favorite to land the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package of out-of-market games, but the sides have not finalized a deal.

A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received “several hundreds” of new reports, but no evidence so far of alien life.

Researchers say nearly 1 in 5 videos suggested by YouTube in response to a search for terms related to next week's elections came from untrustworthy sources.

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Brazilian voters are being bombarded by online misinformation, less than a week before they pick their next leader.

Social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok and Twitter say they're taking steps to prevent the spread of misinformation about voting and elections ahead of next month's midterms.

A flare-up in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has killed 155 troops on both sides since early Tuesday.

Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has killed about 100 troops and fed fears of broader hostilities between the longtime adversaries.

Google and a team of university researchers have hit on what they say could be an effective way to make people more impervious to the harmful impact of online misinformation.

Our Solutionaries team tracks down solutions to one of the scariest, most terrifying problems plaguing parents—school safety.

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, big tech firms and the European Union moved to ban the country's main propaganda and disinformation channels.

There were more than 41,000 traffic deaths in 2021 alone, but experts are creating solutions. Don’t miss the innovations keeping drivers and pedestrians safe.

The series takes a deeper look into local businesses in southwest Virginia and the stories behind them.

The Super Carlin Brothers have an ever-expanding social media universe. Their YouTube Channel has over 2 million subscribers, while their Popcorn Culture podcast is growing alongside other endeavors. And they do it all from their studio in downtown Roanoke.

Seven months after being fired by CNN, Chris Cuomo is reemerging into the public eye.