Sources: CBS News
Thousands of websites, such as Facebook and YouTube, begin implementing age verification to block "adult content" for British viewers under the age of 18, according to Ofcom. 2025-07-25
Facebook and Alphabet Inc., which owns YouTube, announce that they have removed a video of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claiming that COVID-19 vaccines cause AIDS after the video was found to have violated their respective company's policies about the vaccines. 2021-10-25
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
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
In March 2020, the official music video for "Godzilla", Eminem featuring Juice Wrld, was released posthumously in his honor and directed by Cole Bennett. It features cameos from Mike Tyson and Dr. Dre, and has garnered over 750 million views on YouTube.2020-03-9
Google has a cloud services outage that affects Gmail, Snapchat, YouTube and other services in parts of the United States. 2019-06-2
Japan lodges a formal complaint after footage appears on YouTube of a US F-16 fighter jet based at Misawa Air Base in Aomori flying at high speed and low altitude through mountains in an apparent breach of regulations. Japanese law prohibits aircraft from descending below 150 feet in non-residential areas. 2018-04-30
Pakistan lifts a three-year ban on YouTube after Google launches a local version that allows the government to demand removal of material it considers to be offensive. Similar systems have existed in China for many years. 2016-01-19
Samsung releases, in South Korea, a camera that can post photos and videos directly to Facebook and YouTube. 2011-02-23
The internet parody video "Newport State of Mind", which had received hundreds of thousands of hits, is taken off YouTube due to a "copyright claim" by EMI Publishing. 2010-08-11