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
YouTube is reportedly blocked and slowed down across Russia following the website's blocking of several channels that expressed support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 2024-08-8
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
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
A shooting at YouTube headquarters wounds four. The gunwoman takes her own life. 2018-04-3
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
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