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YouTube announces that it has temporarily suspended U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) for violating its policies about promoting unproven alternative therapies to treat COVID-19.
2021-06-11

YouTube announces that it will ban misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines as an effort to expand its policy surrounding misinformation about COVID-19.
2020-10-14

YouTube announces that it will turn off comments on videos featuring children under the age of 18 after reports that a pedophile ring was operating in the comment sections of videos featuring minors, which subsequently led AT&T, Nestlé and Hasbro to suspend advertisements on the website.
2019-02-28

A shooting at YouTube headquarters wounds four. The gunwoman takes her own life.
2018-04-3

YouTube announces that YouTubers who make "egregious" content will be punished. Critics of the move call it censorship.
2018-02-2

Sony releases the film "The Interview" online via YouTube and Google Play.
2014-12-24

Krystian Zimerman, one of the world's leading concert pianists, angrily exits a concert in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, over a dispute with YouTube which he says is "destroying music".
2013-06-4

Samsung releases, in South Korea, a camera that can post photos and videos directly to Facebook and YouTube.
2011-02-23

Pakistan restores access to the video sharing website YouTube, but 1,200 web pages remain blocked for hosting "blasphemous" content.
2010-05-27

Lady Gaga breaks a YouTube most viewed record, becoming "Queen of YouTube" with more than one billion views.
2010-04-16