Sources: CBS News
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
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
Google shuts down 2,500 channels on its video sharing platform YouTube that were linked to Chinese disinformation. The channels generally posted "spammy, non-political content", but a small subset touched on politics, the company said. 2020-08-5
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
Turkey blocks access to YouTube after a high-level intelligence leak. 2014-03-27
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
YouTube successfully defends itself in a billion dollar copyright infringement suit by Viacom. 2013-04-18
Pakistan restores access to the video sharing website YouTube, but 1,200 web pages remain blocked for hosting "blasphemous" content. 2010-05-27