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MrBeast’s ambitious reality show, which the YouTube megastar hopes will expand his massive online reach and turn the corner on recent controversies, is already raising questions from consumer advocates over a partnership with a fintech company.
Nearly half of American teenagers say they are online “constantly,” despite concerns about the effects of social media and smartphones on their mental health.
“Anora,” Sean Baker’s odyssey of a New York stripper, and Jane Schoenbrun’s psychological horror “I Saw the TV Glow” dominated nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards with six nods each, including best feature and best director.
Online video production company MrBeast says it has fired somewhere between 5 to 10 employees following an investigation into the YouTube empire’s workplace culture.
YouTube star Corey Pritchett Jr. is making headlines after a dramatic fallout with ex-girlfriend Chestine Washington, aka BigBankDanni.
Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Arkansas has sued YouTube and its parent company Alphabet, saying the video-sharing platform is deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth.
MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize.
Donald Trump’s campaign has fully embraced the bravado-filled, macho, often contrarian online spaces of younger men on livestreaming platforms.
A confidential memo shows that MrBeast has ordered a full assessment of the internal culture in his YouTube empire and an investigation into “allegations of inappropriate behavior by people in the company."
YouTube’s biggest star MrBeast is facing complaints about the safety of contestants from the preliminary round of his ambitious “Beast Games” game show, which boasts 1,000 competitors hoping for a $5 million grand prize.
MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used inappropriate language in his early online days, as numerous controversies bubbled up around him and a former collaborator.
The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song says.
Hong Kong’s leader says his government will keep monitoring for any non-compliance with a court order that bans a popular protest song.
YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong to comply with a removal order, days after a court approved an injunction to ban the song in the city.
Misinformation about India's election is surging online as the world's most populous country votes.
While a bill to ban TikTok if it doesn't change owners has received President Joe Biden's signature, it could still be years before the popular video-sharing app is actually blocked from U.S. app stores — if it is blocked at all.
Cambodian authorities are investigating the abuse of monkeys at the famous Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Texas-based comedian Andrew Youngblood is in the house. He was on Houston Life back in December right before he filmed his special at the secret group. The special, "I'll tell you this" was just released yesterday. We're chatting with him about the drop.
This year’s WrestleMania is just days away, but WWE’s marketing campaign for its biggest premium live event of the year was kicked into overdrive months ago.
As WWE gears up for its biggest annual premium live event next month, the company continues to harness the power of its social media presence to reach its fans.
Mexico’s president has again lashed out at social media platform YouTube for taking down part of his daily news briefing where he revealed a reporter’s phone number.
A graphic video from a Pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father that circulated for hours on YouTube has put a spotlight yet again on gaps in social media companies’ ability to prevent horrific postings from spreading across the web.
A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.
A trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies has sued Ohio over a pending law that requires children to get parental consent to use social media apps.
Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents.
The U.S. Justice Department says an influencer who staged a California plane crash to make a YouTube video of himself parachuting to safety has been sentenced to six months in prison.
Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Todd Haynes’ “May December” and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” got a leading five nominations, including best feature, from the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including requiring creators to reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.
Jack Douglass, the creator behind Jacksfilms, said Alia Shelesh, the YouTuber known as SSSniperwolf, came to his home and posted images of it to Instagram.
A man died, and a second man was taken to the hospital after a shooting at a YouTube influencer party in downtown Houston on Saturday, the Houston Police Department said.
Artificial intelligence tools that can conjure whimsical artwork or realistic-looking images from written commands started wowing crowds last year.
YouTube says Russell Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site after several women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned influencer.
Google is introducing its artificially intelligent chatbot named Bard to other members of its digital family — including Gmail, Maps and YouTube — as it seeks to ward off competitive threats posed by similar technology run by Open AI and Microsoft.
Authorities were summoned last year to the Utah home of Ruby Franke, the YouTube family influencer charged with multiple counts of child abuse, after a concerned neighbor said her children had been left home alone for several days, a police report shows.
India has launched its first space mission to study the sun, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south pole region of the moon.
Are you tired of your kids spending too much time on social media? A Houston area psychiatrist is handing out some healthy tips and explaining how the use of social media could be beneficial to some kids.
Children's advocacy groups including Fairplay and Common Sense Media are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google, saying the tech giant serves personalized ads to kids on YouTube despite federal law prohibiting the practice.
Children in Georgia would need their parents' permission to create social media accounts if some top Republicans in the state get their way next year.
An 11-year-old Florida girl was arrested after falsely texting authorities that her friend was kidnapped by an armed man. She later confessed the prank was part of a YouTube challenge.
A man charged in the Capitol riot who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s Washington home will remain in jail while he awaits trial.
The Swedish YouTuber, best known as Felix Kjellberg, made the announcement on Instagram in a collaboration post with his wife Marzia on the birth of their son, Björn.
YouTube says it will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election and other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by widespread fraud, errors or glitches.
The firing of two employees at a religious school in western New York is fanning the culture wars roiling parts of the United States.
YouTube is great at sending users videos that it thinks they'll like based on their interests.
A YouTuber whose single-engine airplane crashed in a California national forest admitted that he downed the aircraft to boost views for a sponsorship deal, authorities said Thursday.
Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the cast of “Ted Lasso” and the web series that gave us a kid loving corn are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards.
In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter who was killed in a terrorist attack.
A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.
A 23-year-old Katy man is out on bond after he fled from Texas state troopers three different times, twice at high speeds and once on foot.
H-Town’s very own YouTuber “Unspeakable” has a goal on Jan. 21: turn the Toyota Center into a massive ball pit. It’s said to be the most extreme challenge yet.
Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem in the mental health crisis among youth.
The public school district in Seattle is suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.
YouTube released its annual list of the American “videos, creators, and music that made an impact in 2022.” It offers tantalizing insight into the content that the country’s consuming on the platform.
Houston Life chats with local seventh grader Aniyah Cotton, a rapper and actress giving other kids a platform to shine with her YouTube talk show, ‘The Aniyah Cotton show.’
Today on Houston Life, we heard from a local teen who’s making an impact on his community while still in high school. Bailey Moore sat down with Derrick and Courtney to share his passion for helping others and details about his new podcast with youth leader and entrepreneur Jordyn Wright!
Social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok and Twitter say they're taking steps to prevent the spread of misinformation about voting and elections ahead of next month's midterms.
Los grupos declaran que las compañías de redes sociales no están haciendo lo suficiente para frenar las falsedades que se esparcen en sus plataformas.
The groups say social media companies are not doing enough to curb the spread of falsehoods specifically targeting Latinos.
Fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan has killed about 100 troops and fed fears of broader hostilities breaking out between the longtime adversaries.
Google and a team of university researchers have hit on what they say could be an effective way to make people more impervious to the harmful impact of online misinformation.
YouTube will begin removing misleading videos about abortion in response to falsehoods being spread about the procedure that is being banned or restricted across a broad swath of the U.S. The move announced Thursday by the Google-owned video site comes about a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had protected the legality of abortion in the country for nearly 50 years.
A first on Houston Life, Lauren Kelly is live revealing a viral craze in Houston that’s for women-only. It has more than 187k Followers on Instagram and 76,200 YouTube subscribers. It started in Houston and is a nationwide success story. Join us Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. on KPRC 2.
Technoblade, a popular YouTuber best known for his Minecraft videos, died about a year after he was diagnosed with cancer, according to his family. He was 23.
Do you live in a food desert? Are you in the middle of a food swamp? Do better options exist? Food solutions for everybody, including the littlest ones in desperate need of baby formula. Join us for Solutionaries on Thursday, June 30 at 6:30 p.m CST.
A man was killed and two others were injured, including rap star Ludacris’ manager, in a parking lot shooting in an upscale neighborhood north of downtown Atlanta on Sunday night.
