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Ruby Franke, the Utah mom behind the now-defunct family YouTube channel 8 Passengers, was arrested Wednesday on child abuse charges after a malnourished child with open wounds and duct tape on their extremities was found, officials announced.Franke's business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, was also arrested on the same charges. The two regularly collaborate on relationship and parenting advice videos for Hildebrandt's life counseling service ConneXions. ConneXions has been criticized in the past for its teachings about parenting, including prioritizing the organization's "principles of truth" over a person's children. The Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department said in a press release Thursday it received a report about a juvenile in need of help at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday morning. The juvenile was described as "emaciated and malnourished, with open wounds and duct tape around the extremities.""The condition of the juvenile was so severe that they were seen by Santa Clara-Ivins EMS and transported to a local area hospital," the press release said. Evidence led officers to a nearby home where another juvenile was found in similar condition and taken to a local hospital for treatment, the release said. Four minors were taken into the care of the Department of Child and Family Services following

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For some influencers, being canceled isn’t career-ending — it’s the launchpad to a fresh start.Three of the internet’s most controversial stars have staged successful comebacks over the past two years. But instead of changing themselves, they just switched platforms. James Charles, Tana Mongeau and Jeffree Star, each of whom have over 20 million followers across various platforms, have found success in what might be considered their second (or third, or fourth) hack at internet fame. The three were among the most-followed and most-criticized internet creators of a recently passed era in which weekly YouTube videos were the dominant format of influencer content. They have all faced multiple cycles of widespread backlash, or what some people would call cancellation. Now, they are thriving on other platforms and with other kinds of content, using their renewed goodwill to launch tours and products. Star, who became known on YouTube for being a makeup and luxury style guru, has embraced TikTok Live, where he livestreams for hours at a time. Mongeau, who rose to YouTube prominence with exaggerated “Storytimes” about herself, launched a podcast called “Cancelled” in 2021 that has an audience of millions of listeners; she also jump-started a cross-country live tour. Charles, who shot to

Did the site radicalize Americans in 2016? At this point, it’s impossible to know.Illustration by The AtlanticAugust 30, 2023, 2:32 PM ETAround the time of the 2016 election, YouTube became known as a home to the rising alt-right and to massively popular conspiracy theorists. The Google-owned site had more than 1 billion users and was playing host to charismatic personalities who had developed intimate relationships with their audiences, potentially making it a powerful vector for political influence. At the time, Alex Jones’s channel, Infowars, had more than 2 million subscribers. And YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, which accounted for the majority of what people watched on the platform, looked to be pulling people deeper and deeper into dangerous delusions.The process of “falling down the rabbit hole” was memorably illustrated by personal accounts of people who had ended up on strange paths into the dark heart of the platform, where they were intrigued and then convinced by extremist rhetoric—an interest in critiques of feminism could lead to men’s rights and then white supremacy and then calls for violence. Most troubling is that a person who was not necessarily looking for extreme content could end up watching it because the algorithm noticed a whisper

Long feared, the deepfake scam has finally arrived on social media. Fake videos of celebrities hawking phony services have begun to gain some traction on major social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.Last week, NBC News viewed more than 50 videos posted to those sites that featured computer-manipulated images and audio of well-known people, all of which appeared to have been created to scam viewers out of money.Almost all of them centered on Elon Musk, with manipulated videos of several news and television personalities — including CBS News anchor Gayle King, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and HBO host Bill Maher — falsely claiming Musk had invented a technologically advanced investment platform.Most of the videos continued with a similarly deepfaked Musk, who encouraged viewers to invest their money in the nonexistent platform. Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, has promoted some cryptocurrencies in the past, leading to his becoming extremely popular with scammers who use his image for their own gain. There is no evidence Musk had anything to do with the videos.In response to emailed questions about the videos, Musk responded: “Ugh, I can’t believe you sent me Facebook links.”Deepfakes have circulated online for years

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YouTube recently provided creators with more details on how its Shorts algorithm works during an interview with Todd Sherman, the product lead for YouTube Shorts. The discussion aimed to clear up common misconceptions creators have about the Shorts algorithm and how it differs from YouTube’s algorithm for long-form videos. In this article, we delve into the 11-minute conversation, which touches on the importance of audience-focused content creation, the definition of a ‘view,’ and the strategic considerations behind video length and customization. Additionally, Sherman addresses questions related to hashtags, posting frequency, and the lifespan of a Short. The Algorithm & Audience According to Sherman, the long-form and Shorts algorithms’ core goal is to connect viewers with videos they find valuable. Sherman emphasized that the saying “don’t think algorithm, think audience” holds for Shorts, much like it does for long-form content. He said, “The audience is the algorithm.” There are differences in how the algorithm works for short-form content due to its unique format. “We want to feel satisfied with ,” Sherman said. “But there’s a lot of things that we do in short form that sort of are different and focused on the fundamentals of short form.” Unlike long-form

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