YouTube is home to thousands of content creators. For this reason, the competition on the platform is very tight. But despite that, there are still some who were able to stand out among the others and capture the attention of thousands and even millions of viewers.
Continue ReadingYouTube Takes down Michael Moore’s “Planet of Humans”
After acquiring 8.3 million views on YouTube, the platform takes down Michael Moore ad Jeff Gibbs Planet of the Humans, a controversial documentary film. Filmmakers say that the removal of the documentary is a blatant act of censorship.
YouTube Offers An Exclusive Live Streaming Deal to PewDiePie
YouTube star PewDiePie has signed an exclusive live-streaming contract with the company after he switched to a rival platform last year.
Felix Kjellberg, or more popularly known as PewDiePie by his fans, is the biggest independent content creator on Youtube with over 104 million subscribers. This 30-year-old Swedish content creator and vlogger started building his YouTube channel in 2010.
Continue ReadingFrom YouTube in Delhi: Governments Encourage Schools to do E-Learning
At around 9 AM on April 13, two WhatsApp groups came alive in Hudeel, Nagaur district in Rajasthan’s gram panchayat. One WhatsApp group is for the parents, while the other is for the teachers and school officials. The messages in the group consist of lessons like a “body movement” video for Class 6’s NCERT as well as a YouTube link for Class 9’s remainder theorem.
Continue ReadingJay-Z Asks YouTube to Take Down Videos With Vocal Synthesis
A New YouTube channel called Vocal Synthesis is dedicated to publishing audio deepfakes. These audio deepfakes are speech generated by artificial intelligence to mimic the voices of humans. The voices that these AI-generated voices mimic are synthesized by text through training a neural network with state of the art system.
Conspiracy Theorist Rumors Acquires Thousands of Views on YouTube
A YouTuber who is obsessed with UFOs created misleading videos on his YouTube account where he targeted Latin America despite the debunk of conspiracies.