YouTube star Lilly Singh to replace Carson Daly with her own late-night NBC show

Singh will be the first woman to host a daily late-night show for a major network, but can she translate her 14 million YouTube subscribers to TV viewers?

YouTube’s new fact-check feature will try to pour water on viral conspiracy videos

Some academics are taking conspiracy theories very seriously

They can shape public sentiment on everything from climate change to public health. Understanding why people believe them is vital, researchers say.

Content moderators use crazy metaphors to describe their hellish jobs

Momo is basically 2019’s answer to viral chain mail

The tech giant fighting anti-vaxxers isn’t Twitter or Facebook. It’s Pinterest

While the social media world scratches its beard about content moderation, Pinterest proves it doesn’t have to be all that hard.

Brands are finally realizing they’ll never be 100% safe on YouTube

As advertisers such as Disney and Epic Games punish the platform with a boycott because of videos of minors used by pedophiles, marketers and agencies are coming to grips with the trade-off between scale and safety.

The Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon just hit a big YouTube milestone

Despite recent crackdown, YouTube still promotes plenty of conspiracies

Las Vegas shooting false-flag theorists, 9/11 truthers, and anti-vaxxers are easy to find, thanks to YouTube’s recommendation engine.

Why watching weird YouTube videos helps me fall asleep when nothing else works

Why a video of an eye exam can relax me in a way that other sleep methods can’t, and the emerging science of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.

Meet the designers who make a living building tiny houses on The Sims

Their construction videos get millions of views. Why are so many people obsessed with virtual tiny homes?

YouTube bans dangerous challenges and pranks after Bird Box challenges go viral

Nielsen and Google just inked a deal for mobile ad measurement

2019 is the year to stop talking about ethics and start taking action

Here’s how.

People are falling off buildings in search of the perfect Instagram shot

In pursuit of clicks, likes, and followers, a growing number of daredevils are risking injury or even death. What can we do about that?

YouTube is taking down some of those “Bird Box Challenge” videos

Don’t blindfold yourself from this potential problem.

Atheist podcaster Sam Harris says he’s done with Patreon because of deplatforming

YouTube removed 1.67 million channels last quarter for breaking community guidelines

YouTube’s 2018 Rewind is now its most disliked video