Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died.

A longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company’s creation is stepping down as YouTube’s CEO.

The NFL has announced a multiyear agreement with Google for “NFL Sunday Ticket.”.

More than 80 fact checking organizations are calling on YouTube to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform.

Internet giants, including social media apps Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, joined some world leaders to issue a global call to better protect children online at a Paris summit on Thursday.

Senators have put executives of YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on the defensive.

Donald Trump will find out whether he gets to return to Facebook on Wednesday.

A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids.

That pledge is now a distant memory as Google confronts an existential threat similar to what Microsoft once faced. They focused on creating a database of everything on the internet through a search engine that almost instantaneously listed a pecking order of websites most likely to have what anyone wanted. Google's promotion of Chrome on its search engine helped the browser supplant Explorer as the market leader. Google began reining in its spending and even created a new holding company, Alphabet, to oversee some of its unprofitable projects, such as internet=beaming balloons and self-driving cars. —-Liedtke first interviewed Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2000 when he began covering Google for the AP.

"We certainly have seen how our users have changed," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said in an interview for CNN's "Reliable Sources." Videos that contradict the World Health Organization's recommendations about social distancing guidelines would also be a policy violation. The YouTube homepage for users in the United States now includes dedicated areas for CDC videos about Covid-19 as well as learning videos for children. On March 20, YouTube announced a Covid-19 "news shelf" on its homepage, surfacing news videos from mainstream sources about the virus. That's one of the keys to the site's endless fount of fresh content, Wojcicki pointed out: Many creators "were working from home even before Covid-19."