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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

YouTube suspends channels run by Myanmar's military and removes junta propaganda videos for "violating its community guidelines and terms of service".
2021-03-5

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

Google has a cloud services outage that affects Gmail, Snapchat, YouTube and other services in parts of the United States.
2019-06-2

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

North Korea's embassy in Moscow issues a statement, saying: "The film "The Interview", produced by the U.S. studio Sony Pictures, is a very dangerous film product that justifies and promotes terrorism."
2014-12-26

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

Hackers send the FBI an email linking to a YouTube video of "You are an idiot!"
2014-12-20

Sony cancels the New York City sneak preview of the upcoming 2014 film "The Interview", originally scheduled for December 18, due to threatening messages by hackers.
2014-12-17

Images emerge on YouTube of a man being shot at close range, possibly by police, in Cairo - Alexandria; his condition is unknown.
2011-02-6