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Thursday, October 9, 2025
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Topic: YouTube

Google to pay record $170 million fine for YouTube child privacy breaches

The settlement represents the most significant US enforcement action against a big tech company in at least five years over its practices involving minors.

YouTube will launch new website for children after criticism over inappropriate content

The new site, an online version of the YouTube Kids mobile app, will go live later this week and get new categories for different ages.

Climate change deniers dominate YouTube searches on warming crisis, study finds

The study was conducted by a researcher at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and published in Frontiers of Communication.

As YouTube mulls changes to kids’ content, rival services see opportunity

YouTube has been accused of breaking laws overseeing kids’ web habits, and other charges. Many entrepreneurs are trying to strike while the giant is in turmoil.

YouTube plans to end targeted ads on videos aimed at kids

Since targeted ads rely on collecting information about the viewer, US laws effectively bar companies from serving them to children under 13 without parental permission.

Modi govt can’t ban lynching documentary, so it plans to ask YouTube to pull down trailer

'Lynch Nation' is a crowdfunded 42-minute documentary about lynching incidents reported since Modi govt came to office in 2014.

Bollywood rapper Badshah sets record with 75 million views/day but YouTube is ignoring it

Badshah suggests exclusion is a double standard at YouTube. Rivals suspect Badshah purchased ads to promote song and increase views.

Conspiracy theorists on Youtube are crowding the conversation on climate change, finds study

The amount of disinformation on YouTube makes it difficult to discuss geoengineering, and is undermining the authority of science, says Joachim Allgaier, author of the study.

Badshah’s Paagal shows how to get the most no. of YouTube views in 24 hrs using Google ads

Badshah's new track Paagal may have set the record with 75 million views in a day but there are weaknesses in Google's advertising setup that could have made that possible.

Folk, hip-hop & country — regional music videos from Northeast are all the rage on YouTube

Language seems to be no barrier as videos of Northeast artistes singing in their regional tongue are garnering lakhs of views on the platform.

On Camera

India’s $44 billion space dream rests on getting SATCOM right

The Satellite Communication vertical is expected to contribute approximately $14.9 billion by 2033, with $12.7 billion projected from the domestic market and $2.2 billion from exports.

60% increase in India’s carbon emissions by 2050, coal to remain top energy source: BP Energy Outlook

The country will account for 12 percent of global energy demand by 2050 from 7 percent in 2023, adds BP report.

ISKP & Lashkar converging under aegis of Pakistan’s ISI to take on Baloch fighters

ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.