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Some social media companies clarified this week that they consider most political content “news.”

Get used to giving up control.

YouTube will pay $170 million to settle charges it violated kids’ privacy and a 1998 law. That’s a pittance.

Milo Yiannopoulos and his right-wing peers seemed state of the art in 2016. CNN’s Oliver Darcy talks about what changed since then.

That means the video platform is okay with “content that is outside the mainstream, controversial, or even offensive.”

What’s more likely is that all sorts of speech — and people — would get swept up in the technology dragnets Trump seems to be proposing.

“Bogus” kind of gives it away.

It’s Dem debate day, and Trump wants to keep the attention on his own campaign.

Amofah had struggled with mental illness and spoke of his discomfort with internet fame.

New legislation proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley that’s intended to rid social media of supposed political bias ignores the platforms’ real problems.

After the most hectic week of YouTube’s most hectic year, Wojcicki joined Recode’s Peter Kafka onstage at Code to apologize and explain.

“I think we would lose a lot of voices,” Wojcicki said.

A conservative commentator has been harassing a Vox journalist for a long time. YouTube still isn’t quite sure what to do about it.

The platform’s response to a queer Vox journalist’s harassment complaint has sparked backlash and confusion.

Plenty of dodgy content is still allowed.

A Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer.

Harris, previously best known for his association with the Time Well Spent movement, compares the unchecked rise of tech to the “catastrophic” future of climate change.

A report from YouTube’s glitzy sales event in New York City, where “responsibility” is important but Daddy Yankee is even more important.

All 335 PBS stations use federal funding, but the ones that depend on it are largely in Trump country.

Fishman is betting that young women who used to watch the CW or MTV will demand those sorts of shows from YouTube, too.

The viral video of a shooting in New Zealand offered a grim reminder of tech companies’ vast reach.

Wojcicki spoke with Recode’s Kara Swisher at the Lesbians Who Tech summit in San Francisco.

Platforms like YouTube and Netflix are at war, and Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi is happy to sell content to all of them.

Recode’s Kara Swisher talks with six of the organizers of the Nov. 1 protests, who say the company’s response has been deeply inadequate.

Reed Hastings wants to compete with YouTube overseas, and the only way it can do that is by offering a free-with-ads option, Green says on Recode Media.

Everything from selfies to YouTube has armed Generation Z with an “inherent” appreciation of film technique, Reitman says.

Celebrities are only interesting some of the time, Bell said on the latest episode of Recode Media.

Sci-fi is very popular among video services, too.

In media, distribution is king.

Also, why the “Center for Humane Technology” is not an oxymoron.

The craziest thing I saw at Cannes was restraint.

People are going to pirate World Cup highlights. What can social media companies do to stop them?

As a record exec, Cohen used to be a bit anti-YouTube. Now he’s soaking in it.

That’s about double what it was three years ago.

Professional lacrosse player Paul Rabil talks about the intersection of social media and sports on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.

The music business thought about building its own YouTube competitor. Instead, it’s letting YouTube do what YouTube always wanted to do.

The Vox.com editor-at-large says the Netflix series is tackling questions that are too big for YouTube.

Why? Let him tell you.