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Russia threatens to ban YouTube if it does not reinstate two German-language channels backed by the Russian state that were deleted for violating COVID-19 misinformation guidelines.
2021-09-29

Google announces that it is building the world's longest undersea cable that will run from the east coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional connections in Praia Grande, Brazil, and Punta del Este, Uruguay. The cable will ensure fast, low-latency access to Google products, such as Search, Gmail and YouTube, as well as Google Cloud services.
2021-06-12

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

Google and YouTube announce that after the polls close on November 3 for the Presidential election, they will stop allowing political ads even if there is confusion or civil unrest while votes are counted.
2020-09-25

The official music video for BTS' Dynamite breaks the all-time record on YouTube for the highest number of views on a single video in 24 hours, generating 101,100,000 views in its first 24 hours.
2020-08-21

Google agrees to pay a record US$170 million penalty to settle accusations that YouTube broke the law when it knowingly tracked and sold advertisements to children, the Federal Trade Commission says.
2019-09-4

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

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

The United States Central Command launches an investigation into a video posted on YouTube which appears to show a U.S. service member firing on civilians inside a truck on a road in Afghanistan. The montage video, titled "Happy Few Ordnance Symphony", has since been removed.
2018-01-10

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