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Russia's telecommunications regulator, Roskomnadzor, considers blocking YouTube as it accuses the platform of "terrorism and of endangerment of Russian citizens' lives."
2022-03-18

YouTube suspends the account of U.S. Senator Rand Paul for one week for spreading misinformation about the effectiveness of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Paul subsequently states in a tweet that he considers the suspension to be "a badge of honor".
2021-08-11

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

Egypt's top administrative court upholds a 2013 lower court ruling on the short film "Innocence of Muslims". The court orders authorities to block YouTube for a month. An official says the movie denigrates Islam's prophet Muhammad.
2018-05-26

Russia wants YouTube and Instagram to remove videos posted by Alexey Navalny, a prominent opposition figure, describing his investigation into Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, with bribing Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko and offering information about the 2016 U.S. election he had received from Paul Manafort.
2018-02-13

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

Apparent ISIL computer hackers attack the feeds for the United States Central Command for Twitter and YouTube.
2015-01-12

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

Sony schedules the film "The Interview" for release to small theaters on Christmas Day despite canceling its debut.
2014-12-23

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