A jury has started deliberating whether Meta and Google designed Instagram and YouTube to addict children, in a bellwether case for 1,600 plaintiffs.

After years of struggling to get freaky children’s content in order on YouTube, the company goes full throttle ...

QR code posted by YouTube India leads to Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’, reviving jokes about the CBSE Class 12 Maths exam QR code incident.

AI-powered kids content wracks up billions of YouTube views, despite pervasive slop. Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via YouTube still hasn't solved its AI problem. Digitally faked content is still ...

Companies are watching to see if a bellwether lawsuit accusing Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube of knowingly designing a ...

The New York Times reviewed these clips, along with more than 1,000 other videos recommended to young children on YouTube, and found that the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Today, I’m talking ...

In today's interview, we chat with Jesse Cox. He's been a YouTube pioneer for well over a decade with his main channel boasting over 1 million subscribers. Since then, he's also expanded into the ...

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Johnny Gaffney is having a nightmare: He ...

Not all YouTube experts do the same job — strategy, execution and growth support vary widely. Consultants usually diagnose problems, while managers and growth experts help execute solutions. Channel ...

YouTube keeps growing fast. In 2025, there were more than 2.5 billion active YouTube users and over 100 million YouTube channels. That is great for viewers, but it makes life hard for YouTube channel ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...