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Los Angeles (AFP) - A daredevil YouTuber who deliberately crashed his plane to boost the number of viewers on his channel and then lied about it to investigators has been jailed for six months after reaching a plea deal, US authorities said Monday. In a video of the event entitled "I crashed my airplane," Trevor Jacob appears to experience engine trouble while flying over southern California in November 2021. The dramatic footage, viewed millions of times on YouTube, shows Jacob, now 30, ejecting from the single-engine plane -- selfie stick in hand -- and parachuting into the dense vegetation ...
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Brussels (AFP) - The EU announced investigations on Thursday into YouTube and TikTok to find out what action the US and Chinese-owned platforms are taking to ensure the safety of minors. The European Commission said it had sent formal requests for information to TikTok and YouTube respectively, the first step in procedures launched under the EU's new law on digital content. The EU's executive arm said it wanted to know what measures the video-sharing platforms have taken to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA), especially regarding the risks posed to children's mental and physical health...
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Washington (AFP) - YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 US presidential election was plagued by "fraud, errors or glitches," the platform said Friday, a decision quickly criticized by anti-misinformation advocates. The announcement by the Google-owned video website is a marked departure from its policy initiated in December 2020, which attempted to curb false claims -- most importantly pushed by then-president Donald Trump -- that his re-election loss to Joe Biden was due to the vote being "stolen." "The ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are c...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A YouTuber pilot who bailed out midair and deliberately sent his plane crashing into the ground could be jailed up to 20 years after agreeing to plead guilty to obstructing a US investigation, authorities said Thursday. In a video seen by nearly three million people and entitled "I crashed my airplane," Trevor Jacob appears to experience engine trouble while flying over southern California in November 2021. The dramatic footage shows Jacob, 29, ejecting from the single engine plane -- selfie-stick in hand -- and parachuting to the dense vegetation of the Los Padres Nationa...
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Washington (AFP) - Doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can apply to have their YouTube channels certified, the video sharing platform said Thursday, in a push to limit misinformation on the site. The change will allow viewers to more easily access videos containing "high-quality health information," YouTube said. "This is a big step towards helping people more easily find and connect with content that comes from the extraordinary community of healthcare professionals on YouTube," it added. In addition to doctors and nurses, mental health professionals and healthcare information...
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San Francisco (AFP) - YouTube on Thursday said it will start removing videos containing false or unsafe claims about abortion in a crackdown on misinformation about the medical procedure. The move comes as women seek reliable pregnancy-related information online in the wake of the right to abortions being revoked in many areas across the United States. "We believe it's important to connect people to content from authoritative sources regarding health topics, and we continuously review our policies and products as real world events unfold," a YouTube spokesperson said in response to an AFP inqu...
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San Francisco (AFP) - YouTube on Friday pulled a video posted by the congressional committee probing last year's attack on the US Capitol because it contained election misinformation spread by then president Donald Trump. "Our election integrity policy prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches changed the outcome of the 2020 US presidential election, if it does not provide sufficient context," YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said in response to an AFP inquiry. "We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and have removed the video uploaded by the Januar...
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San Francisco (AFP) - YouTube on Wednesday began streaming some 4,000 television episodes from shows like "Hell's Kitchen" and "Heartland" to US viewers as the site tries to capture viewers in a fiercely competitive market. The Google-owned video platform said that popular television shows along with films from major studios will be available, with ads, on YouTube using smart televisions, mobile devices or web browsers. YouTube was a pioneer in the trend to accessing video on-demand using the internet, starting with clips uploaded and shared by users. It faces an array of competitors, ranging ...
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San Francisco (AFP) - YouTube on Thursday laid out goals for the year that included making the lives of creators easier and boosting a popular format that rivals TikTok. The video-sharing platform is investing in short-form and live video, along with tools to help creators make money and produce fresh content, according to chief product officer Neal Mohan. "YouTube creators are the heart and soul of the platform, and we want them to always be able to fulfill their most ambitious creative goals," Mohan said in a blog post. "To give them every opportunity possible, we'll continue to invest acros...
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Washington (AFP) - A scuba diver wiped away the algae on a submerged car's license plate and exclaimed: "It's them!" That discovery of two long-missing American teens' apparent remains was the latest tragic find for a subculture of YouTube sleuths. Among the platform's viral hits scoring billions of views is a niche of YouTubers who use sonar devices to search waterways for vehicles linked to US missing persons cases -– and the bones they may hold. That formula was central to revelations this week in a 21-year-old mystery in the southern state of Tennessee, one of a series of cold cases unrave...
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