on youtube kids, and even on youtube for all under 18 users, autoplay is off by default. in the coming months, we will launch additional parental controls in the youtube app. the parents can choose a locked default autoplay setting. a take a break reminders and bedtime reminders are also involved in these experiences. youtube treats personal information from anyone watching children's content on the platform is coming -- as coming from a child, regardless of the age of user. this means on videos classified as made for kids, that we limit data collection and use. as a result, we restrict or disable certain features. for example, we do not serve personalized ads on this content on the main youtube platform. we do not support features such as comments or live chat. we have never allowed personalized advertising on youtube kids or unsupervised experiences. -- or on supervised experiences. there is no issue more important than the safety of kids online and we are working closely to address these challenges. thank you for the opportunity to appear here today, and i look forward

becky is a youtube _ to the community. becky is a youtube influence _ to the community. becky is a youtube influence and - to the community. becky is a i youtube influence and founder of pepper studio. how do you spot the next big youtube or tiktok star?— tiktok star? the really important _ tiktok star? the really important thing - tiktok star? the really important thing to - tiktok star? the really - important thing to remember is often we're going back to see and looking for things relatable. and more attainable than the typical celebrity. chris has written books about tiktok. it seems that tiktok has come out of nowhere? it has. nobody can be a beneficiary of the pandemic but perhaps tiktok has survived a bit better. we have spent as much time as we did from the stone age. that is quite a statistic? and covering the creative economy? k. we are going to hear the words creator and influencer quite a lot in the next 25 minutes. i think a few years ago, we would have said instagram influencer and a youtube creator, but i think creator has become the more preferred word

how do you spot the next big youtube or tiktok star? i think the really important thing to remember about social media is often, we're going there to see... you know, unpolished is better, almost. we're looking for things that are relatable and almost, kind of, more attainable than the typical celebrity, and i think that's the secret. chris stokel—walker has written books about youtube and now tiktok as well. with tiktok in mind, chris, to what extent has it been the year of tiktok 2021? because it seems to have come out of nowhere. it has. nobody can be a beneficiary. of the pandemic, i don't think, julian, but tiktok has been someone i that survived a little bit better. i in march 2021 alone, . we spent as much time on the app as we did _ from the stone age until today, so that gives us an idea just how much we are addicted i to all those creators. that's quite a statistic. kya, you create a weekly newsletter. before that, she covered tech for cnn. we are going to hear the words creator and influencer i suspect quite a lot in the ne

by blocking youtube. also coming up, lava from the volcano is emptying into the atlantic with life-threatening results. plus we need one of the winners of the award known as the alternative nobel prize. a woman being honored for rescuing the cture of one of canada's native peoples. and should the soccer world cup be every two years instead of four? we find out what is at stake behind the numbers. brent: i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and all around the world, welcome. we begin tonight with the battle online to tell the truth about the pandemic. today youtube announced it is shutting down accounts for misinformation and anti-vax in conspiracy theories. the u.s. company banned the popular account of john f. kennedy, jr. and joseph markel left for spreading in misinformation about vaccines. in similar news, it took out the german channel of russian state broadcaster rt, formally known as russia today, without disclosing which of rt's videos broke its rules. our reporter is followi

youtube is becoming incredibly crowded. it's hard for anyone who is not an established creator to gain an audience. emily: i want to ask about this developing story at this digital news site where the coo, according to the new york times, was impersonating a youtube executive on a conference call with goldman sachs. they have said this particular executive was having a mental health issue. now the fbi and youtube are investigating. what do you know about this? >> the dead giveaway was the beginning of the story. if you know anyone at google, they will bring you to a google call, not a zoom. they were also using a gmail address. no one at google will use a gmail address. it sounds like very serious allegations. it is pretty unprecedented in the world of digital media. people have not heard much about the platform. they talk a lot about their growth on youtube. philip difranco rakes in millions of viewers in his daily talk show. they live in this alternative media world where they can have these huge audiences that people out

is there a ceo at youtube? >> i believe there is a ceo at youtube and it's owned by google and google owns youtube. mark: google has the power and i guessed the reason they acquired youtube to promote youtube and crush its competitors. is that what it's doing in houston during? >> we filed a lawsuit this week on monday and our complaint alleges that google itself referencing youtube and google is preinstalling the youtube app on mobile devices which makes it next to impossible for companies like us to compete and in our complaint we alleged in the chronicled evidence in our complaint alleges up to 9.3 billion visitors were redirected to youtube instead of rumble which results in us losing over 100 million uploads, 100 million videos to rumble in $2 billion in damages. the thing that is really upsetting and it makes me really sad is that i was that guy that builds web sites out of my parent's basement. it's not just rumble that's been injured here. every consumer getting injured here every creator on rumble that

emily: you said that's that is youtube ceo susan wojcicki -- that is youtube ceo susan wojcicki. for more on the evolution of the creator economy across platforms, i bring in our report who covers youtube, specifically -- reporter who covers youtube, specifically. what's your biggest takeaway? >> it's not surprising. google uses every opportunity it can to say there's a lot of competition. it was interesting to hear her say, if we are not providing great tools and an economy for our creators, they might leave. in youtube's past years, that statement hasn't held water, until recently. you are seeing instagram, tiktok, snapchat become these places where creators can actually have a sustained living . you are seeing that with their response, not just with the shorts product, but also this massive fund where they will pay out creators in a way they haven't done before. that's basically saying stay with us, don't go to tiktok. emily: tiktok just announced it has one billion users. how does the scale of tiktok compare to youtube? how does the value proposition to a creator compare? mar

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so in this case, the decision was taken by youtube. it justified to move with reference to its own platform rules in russia, measures were taken against our media and n g o. we criticized out because those measures were taken by the government. and i know in many cases those measures were imposed by private entities. i agree that the government was behind them, but technically, those were private decisions by network operators. for example. good. listen. let's talk specifically about this case. we're talking about action not youtube took against archie. and as far as i understand the 2nd channel in accordance with youtube own policies, we are aware of what's up. and of course, the channel control to get the decision reversed. but the bond wasn't imposed by the german government. and since that's exactly what is being said, i must clearly reject it. of course, if robin has ever 2 quick questions mister site, but how did you find out about the band? was it from the media? what did you find out a little earlier? my 2nd question is, you te

he sees the youtube ban as overtly political. many channels are close only because they are very critical about the german government. so of course, there is no proof, there is no hard truth for any involvement, but there is no logic in it. why should capitalistic information on big company close channels with rich their earning money? if they was really closing channels that are spreading, mis and formations about medical information, they must close the government channel and the public kind of vision channel and germany. 5 of the global is structures against politicians and media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society. well, if not the 1st time you tube has targeted rti in april this year, the google own platform took down several of the channels videos relating to covered 1900, that included an interview with a renown virology test and footage of anti lockdown. protests. youtube accused r t of spreading medical misinformation without giving specific really vilma from the germany's c

what about youtube? youtube ceo susan wojcicki tells me she believes google's popular video platform is beneficial to teens. part of my sit down with her about content issues in russia to the possibility of reinstating former president trump. and, text messages tell all. we are getting an inside look about the relationship between elizabeth holmes and her ex business partner and ex-boyfriend sonny balwani. we will bring you an update on the trial as she faces 20 years in prison. first, let's get a look at the markets with kriti gupta. kriti: a down day in the markets and an even worse day for technology stocks. you can see behind me, the sea of red. a really important part of this is the big tech selloffs. the nasdaq, it really dropped, and you saw big tech stocks come back up, apple, amazon, microsoft paring some losses. what did do well, of course, a lot of the cyclical trades. this is pretty interesting because it came in tandem to those yields. i want to connect the dots because you have to talk abou

google owns youtube. mark: google now has power i guess the reason they acquired youtube to promote youtube and crush its competitor and as that what it's done and how's it doing it? >> so we filed a lawsuit this week on monday, and our complaint alleges that google is self-preferencing youtube and search results. and google is also preinstalling youtube app on mobile devices which makes it -- next to impossible for companies like us to compete. and in our complaint we allege that -- we have chronicle evidence in our complaint that alleges up to 9.3 visitors redirected to youtube and instead of rumble which, you know, resulted in us losing over 100 million uploads 100 million videos that creators could have brought to rumble and over 2 billion dollars in damages. but the -- the thing that's really upsetting and makes me really sad is that you know, i was that guy that built that website out of my parents 'basement it is not just rumble that has been injured here. it is every consumer that is getting injur

we want to dig in, youtube, google of course which owns youtube, twitter reaching the next generation of consumers, ones that want content, information, trading tools. taylor, first let's dig into the financial details. taylor: let's start with google. the big headline number, and i will keep this broad and brief him cloud revenue growth slowing just a little bit. getting revenue that -- you are seeing a little bit to the downside with the slowing growth within the cloud segment. that is the opposite when it comes to microsoft. the cloud computing strength has been fueling sales and profit growth. when we talk about the at environments on google, you want to talk about that with twitter, at least twitter says we are up 3% because maybe the impact from the apple and the supply chains, like we heard from facebook, maybe those aren't as bad as we thought. they are seeing less of an impact. texas instruments is a big mover on the day. the overlying headline is that you are getting weakness on some of the revenue forecasts. sonali: are you taking a look at robinhood as well? taylor: yes. w

better known in the world of youtube as boya vlog. he has a university degree but last year he left his home in morocco and moved to turkey. and from there he decided to reach europe on foot. with 1.5 million views on his channel, he has built up a cult following with his special brand of dark humour. church bells ring we travel to meet him in the italian city of bergamo where he now lives undocumented and is still vlogging. when he left morocco, said had no intention of posting his journey online. but his light—hearted posts mean he's creating a rosy picture of a journey that is often really dangerous. what do you think was the most difficult part of the journey? in some of your videos towards the beginning the journey seemed kind of fun, like an adventure. do you think that may encourage more people to try to take it? one person who has been influenced by videos like said's is anwar. he is still making his way across greece, following a route that he spent years researching on youtube. he is constantly on the move so we're followi

of all kinds of quietly broadcasting on youtube . they have repeatedly said outright that they shadow by us and don't let us in. but this turned out to be not enough. we grew despite, they're not letting us in. now they've simply deleted us. this is a full fledged declaration of a media war by germany towards russia. just foreign ministry spokeswoman money is also we'd in by saying that would just happen was inactive aggression. and that there's going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media working in russia. now the message should, didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her truman colleagues working here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. lie spoke with pet, her best drawn, who is foreign policy speaker for the alternative. for germany party, he sees the youtube banners, overtly political. many channels are close only because they are very critical about the german government. so of course there is no proof. there is no hard truth for any involvement, but there is no logic in it. why should capitalisti

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autoplay's default off on youtube supervised experiences on youtube. we have set those two default off. we do allow that if the default is changed to allow for autoplay. for example if a family is in car and the parents have decided they want autoplay to continue. but we have set it to a default of off. >> do you believe that's sufficient? >> i think it's one of a number of tools that are important to make sure that kids have a healthy and safe experience on the platform. another is that we do not deliver targeted advertising on youtube kids. another is that we age gate content to make sure that minors do not see ainge-inappropriate material. it's only with a number of tools and protocols in place that do we think we are meeting the bar we have set for ourselves and the parents expect of us. experts in the fields of child development advise us to make sure that kids have a safe experience on the platform. >> thank you. mr beckerman, after my staf reviewed your privacy policy, i want to list some of the items that tiktok automatically collect from one o

of all kinds of quietly broadcasting on youtube . they have repeatedly said outright that they shadow been us and don't let us in. but this turned out to be not enough. we grew despite, they're not letting us in. now they've simply deleted us. this is a full fledged declaration of a media war by germany towards russia or just foreign ministry spokeswoman money is also we'd in by saying that would just happen was inactive aggression. and that there is going to be a symmetrical response directed at german media working in russia. now the message she had didn't clarify what exactly that means, but i guess her driven colleagues working here can be bracing for a bumpy road ahead. we discussed the bands and the possible motives with modern gold, so a member of germany's left party. it's a clear case of political transition, democratic society which german, he should be able to handle different opinions and youtube and google is american companies. and the companies as well should be able to handle different ideas and not to send law some d

because youtube is part of google, sundar has testified many times on youtube. emily: how often are you meeting with lawmakers are have you met with lawmakers personally? susan: we meet with lawmakers regularly across the globe. there is a lot of regulation in all countries of the world, and we want to make sure they hear our point of view. we want to make sure they understand that this is an important area that deserves a lot of screwed a but we want to make sure we are having conversations about what is the best way to make that happen. what i do worry about his unintended consequences. there may be regulation that is unintended but that has a big impact on our ability to innovate, our ability to create jobs, valuable services, and content. emily: what would you propose? mark zuckerberg says he welcomes regulation. is that your position or is it something else? susan: i recognize that there will be regulation because of the size and significance. in a number of cases, there are laws that are proposed and they actually would have a lot of unintended consequence

pages were completely deleted by youtube without any war. and now what's interesting is that there are no clear rules saying that you can run a separate page or maybe even start a new page if you are suspended on youtube for whatever reason. besides those 4 videos and a question that are 2 doors receive strikes for contained criticism of the government's approach of the pandemic voiced by other medical experts not by journalists. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of rt george, that's debatable. so is a denying any wrong doing that challenging this man. while they're saying that they received an unfair treatment and actually 1st comment on that story in russia with our own editor in chief, the tim daly for several months before our channels were banned, the german media had been publishing scare stories about our teach foreman becoming 2 influential, 2, significant according to their own calculations we are rang worth in terms of money . when was in germany where a bigger than wells were b

then tish, accusing the youtube platform of censorship. will now talk about sensor, so by youtube. yes. within an overly narrow opinion corridor with respect to certain topics during the pandemic were found out that opinions that are not mainstream. the don't echo what the government would like to hear. these opinions were quickly confined to a color branded as extreme with the removal. we now see how something is selectively targeted, dangerous assaults on freedom of discussion took place. and the judge rightly decided against youtube or hadn't the big question is, can you to possess 2 who sit there and says, what is right or wrong from a medical standpoint? well, build presented a very different message. last month, when arte deutsch, arte internationals, german language says the channel had its youtube channel, permanently removed for what, what was claimed. it was the, the publishing of covered disinformation. now, artie deutsch at the time said, and they maintain that what they were doing was giving air to different opinions. and asking though, similar difficult questions abou

pages were completely deleted by youtube without any war. and now what's interesting is that there are no clear rules saying that you can run a separate page or maybe even start a new page if you are suspended on youtube for whatever reason. besides those 4 videos and question that are 2 doors receive strikes for contained criticism of the government's approach of the pandemic voice by other medical experts not by journalists. so to claim that this was medical mis information, misinterpretation, well, in the eyes of rt george, that's debatable. so is he denying any wrong doing? is it challenging this man? while they are saying that they receive an unfair treatment and will actually 1st comment on that story in russia with our own editor in chief, i'm going to get to see my now. and then she said that would just happen in germany, the rti george amounts to a declaration of war on russia by germany. let's hear what she actually said. so this time, they deemed it an attempt to circumvent the restrictions when we invited our audience to our 2nd

and youtube kids as well as . [inaudible]. >> would you support a man. and if we have not waited for law and order to put those protections in place. >> all i hope that you will and that you will be forthcoming the next round of questioning alternate ranking member now. >> thank you. in the past talk you said that but it never share and provide use of data to the chinese government even if asked in a privacy policy said that you can disclose data collected to respond to government inquiries and also that you share data you collect with your parent companies and affiliates that you transmit user information to servers and data centers overseas and earlier this year, the chinese communist party acquired an ownership stake in a seat on the board. so this tiktok chair data with its parent company. >> thank you and this is an important question i'm glad you're asking rated tiktok, we do not share information with the chinese government and would like to point to the citizen lab report one of the most well-respected glo

youtube, we need you. so youtube has not distinguished itself. google has not distinguished themselves in terms of caving to threats from the russian government. there's a new twist tonight. we'll have more on that tonight as well. we're also watching for reaction from trump world tonight, as the committee investigating january 6th, the trump supporters' attack on the capitol on january 6th, the committee has sent out 11 new subpoenas demanding testimony and documents from people who were involved in the events of january 5th and january 6th, the rallies to ee ten-- essentially preceded the attack. and former president trump has made it clear that the people who already got subpoenaed in the investigation, he expects them to defy the subpoenas and not show up to testify. the people who got them were former trump officials, the white house chief of staff, also steve bannon. and the group subpoenaed today, people involved in planning of the events on january 6th. so we'll see what happens with the subpoenas that went out last week and these new sub

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they're threatening youtube. they're very upset with you too because, the russian governments kremlin funded propaganda networks have been promoting anti vaccine nonsense conspiracies, all over the world, particularly in western democracies. and the russian government is mad that that stuff, their government produce to target western democracies, is now getting taken down. it's amazing to see the russian government furious about this. like really the context stake here is disinformation, deliberately false information, hyping fear about vaccines. with false information about them, russia is mad at that because they are like, wait, how can we destroy the west from within, by stoking extremism and decisiveness and self defeating radicalization in the united states and other western democracies. how can we continue to do, that which we've been so successful. a if these western technology companies no longer help us shovel that kremlin produce toxic waste into their social media streams. yet, we will cancel you you,

he sees the youtube band is being overtly political. many channels are close on the because they are very critical about the german government. so of course, there is no proof. there is no hard truth for any involvement, but there is no logic in it. why should capitalistic information on big company close channels with which they're earning money? if they was really closing channels that are spreading, mis information about medic don't mis information, they must close the government channel and the public kind of vision channel and germany. the 5 globally structures against politicians and media who are critical about topics that those global is try to pushed into the society. first time youtube targeted artsy in april this year, the google platform took down several channels, videos relating to cove at 19 included an interview with a renowned verola just an footage of anti lockdown. protests. youtube accused of spreading medical misinformation that didn't give any specifics. live in there from germany, cd party thinks that people shoul

google, which owns youtube, responded with more details. youtube has clear community guidelines which explain what is allowed on the platform. r t. doyle was issued a warning for uploading content that violates our rules in relation to covert 19 medical misinformation policy. this resulted in the suspension of their right to upload videos. during the suspension, the channels owners tried to bypass the restrictions by using a different channel. as a result, both channels were closed, violating youtube terms of service. following the suspension of the main page, archie deutsche continued sharing content, which had not been flagged by youtube on a different account. youtube does not clearly state that this violates its terms and conditions. ortiz, editor in chief, margarita simonian, was the 1st to comment on the story in russia. the gym for several months before channels were banned. the german media had been publishing scare stories about rti, german becoming too influential too significant, according to their own calculations wearing forth in terms of influence in germany were bigger

will youtube put them back on their platform? and if they do that, what does that mean for the future of artie deutsch on youtube? because youtube has a long list of topics about the pandemic that it deems misinformation and are subject to removal. the platform argues that spreading such material poses a serious risk of agree just harm and runs counter to advice by the world health organization. or jim or professor from the discussion panel than youtube removed, told us that it's a matter of freedom of speech. thus, you don't need i, if something has been stamped with the word, this information, fake news. in other words, that youtube has the right even should remove it. the only question is who makes the decision of what is disinformation? i then the next question and who are they and above all, are they independent? almost always not in these are all very dangerous developments and say that we have freedom of the press and freedom of speech. i'm very sorry, but it's not that simple. didn't need to understand the freedom of the

and threatening to take youtube off of all russian internet systems. they're threatening youtube. they're very upset with youtube, because the russian government's kremlin-funded propaganda networks have been promoting anti-vaccine nonsense conspiracies all over the world. and the russian government is mad that that stuff their government produced to target western democracies is now getting taken down. the content at stake here is disinformation, deliberately false hyping fear about vaccines. russia is mad because they're like, wait, how can we destroy the west from within by stoking extremism and divisiveness? how can we continue to do that? which we've been so successful at, if these technology companies no longer help us shovel that toxic waste into their social media streams? nyet, we'll cancel you, youtube, we need you. so youtube -- google has not distinguished themselves in terms of caving to threats from the russian government. there's a new twist tonight. we'll have more on that tonight as well. we're also watching for reaction from trump world tonight, as the committee