Sources: Time
YouTube says that it will ban misinformation related to all vaccines. 2021-09-29
YouTube bans News Corp's "Sky News Australia" channel from uploading new content for seven days after commentator Alan Jones spreads COVID-19 misinformation. This comes shortly after "The Daily Telegraph" fired Jones and ended his regular column over similar concerns. According to a YouTube spokesman, "Specifically, we don’t allow content that denies the existence of Covid-19 or that encourages people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus." 2021-08-1
Several Google services go down without warning around 11:50 UTC, including YouTube, Google Search, and the Google Play Store. The chatting app Discord and mobile video game "Pokémon Go" also go down. The cause was revealed to be an “authentication system outage” by the Google Cloud Twitter account. 2020-12-14
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vows tighter control over "immoral" social media following alleged insults to his daughter and son-in-law when they announced the birth of their fourth son on Twitter. Erdoğan specifically mentioned Twitter, YouTube and Netflix. Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced the arrest of a number of social media users for "insulting tweets". 2020-07-1
Scottish YouTuber Mark "Count Dankula" Meechan is fined £800 for a racially aggravated offence under the Communications Act for a video of a pug dog responding to Nazi slogans. Protests are held outside Airdrie Sheriff Court and English Defence League ex-leader Tommy Robinson sits in court to support Meechan. 2018-04-23
Christina Grimmie, a YouTube star and former contestant on "The Voice", is shot dead by an "infatuated" fan as she signed autographs following a concert appearance with Before You Exit at The Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida. The shooter, 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl, shot himself dead after being tackled by Grimmie's brother. Grimmie died in a hospital just before 11 p.m. 2016-06-10
Twitter and YouTube are both inaccessible for hours in Turkey; part of a crack-down on social media by the government there. 2015-04-6
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
"Gangnam Style" by South Korean singer PSY becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube. 2012-12-21
The music video for South Korean pop singer Psy's "Gangnam Style" surpasses 808 million views, making it the most viewed video in the history of YouTube. 2012-11-24