Nico Grant reports on YouTube and Google from San Francisco. In June 2023, YouTube decided to stop fighting the most persistent strain of election misinformation in the United States: the falsehood ...

On Dec. 9, 2020, YouTube enacted a ban on videos that falsely claimed then-President Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Since then, according to the platform, it has removed “tens of thousands” ...

YouTube said Tuesday it plans to reinstate some accounts that it previously banned for violating rules against repeatedly posting misinformation about Covid-19 and the 2020 election. That announcement ...

For those of us who've been on the internet for decades, today is a big milestone: the 20th anniversary of the first video uploaded to YouTube. That happened way back on April 23, 2005, only about a ...