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Influencers muscle out A-listers: Big name stars are upset that Anna Wintour has not invited them to the Met Gala and instead invited TikTokers and YouTubersThis year's Met Gala is eschewing its more established fashion industry players in favor of younger stars in an effort to bring the event into the social media age Anna Wintour's iconic New York City institution, scheduled for Sept. 13, will only feature co-hosts under the age of 25 Guests expected range from the likes of Billie Eilish and Timothy Chalamet along with a handful of TikTok 'stars' and YouTube influencers This year's event, themed 'In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,' is also the first to take place since the COVID-19 pandemic began last year Many familiar faces will be conspicuously absent, included Tom Brady and Sarah Jessica ParkerThe Post reports that due to COVID-19 mandates, Vogue editor-in-chief and event organizer Anna Wintour had to cut the guest list from 600 to 450 By Matt Mcnulty For Dailymail.Com Published: 13:42 EDT, 15 August 2021 | Updated: 14:47 EDT, 15 August 2021 Pictured: Wintour's iconic event, set for Sept. 13, will only feature co-hosts under the age of 25, ranging from the likes of Billie Eilish to TikTok 'stars' and YouTube influencersA-list…

Char'Nese Turner Posted: Aug 15, 2021 / 10:31 AM CDT | Updated: Aug 15, 2021 / 10:31 AM CDT The Google and YouTube logos are seen at the entrance to the Google offices in Los Angeles, California, November 21, 2019. – YouTube Space LA is one of ten facilities worldwide where content creators can produce video content, learn new skills, and collaborate with the YouTube community. YouTube Space and its resources are available at no charge to YouTubers with at least 10,000 subscribers. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — Social media platforms are ramping up protection for minors. This week, Google and YouTube announced it is introducing policy and product changes that will allow teens to stay more private online and others that will limit ad targeting. “We’re committed to building products that are secure by default, private by design, and that put people in control,” Google said in a blog post. “As kids and teens spend more time online, parents, educators, child safety and privacy experts, and policymakers are rightly concerned about how to keep them safe. We engage with these groups regularly and share these concerns.” Google says it…

Sports are great for a lot of reasons. First, you may see people elevate themselves to impossible levels either on their own or, even better in a group. Second, they can bring people together in a way that not many things can. If you live in an area where your team is on a huge roll then people bond over it. And even when you see greatness, it’s usually fleeting. Baylor’s basketball team this year was a thing of beauty. Next year? Well, they’ll probably be good. They’re not going to be that good though. So when you find people who tower above their sport, and do so for a long time, it’s great to watch. Secretariat’s stunning win in the 1973 Preakness has never been duplicated. Nothing has even come close. Muhammad Ali was a colossus in boxing and popular culture. People still talk about Babe Ruth, about a hundred years past his peak. Michael Jordan. Wilt Chamberlain. And very high up that list is Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento, but you probably know him as Pelé Pelé did something only a handful of athletes ever do: he revolutionized and redefined his sport. He and his Brazilian contemporaries introduced…

Last year, Google made a change that not everybody agreed with: the company killed off Google Play Music and recommended everybody to make the switch to YouTube Music. For Android Auto users, the whole thing ended up becoming a huge struggle, especially because YouTube Music really wasn’t prepared to deliver a car-optimized experience. For example, users migrating from Google Play Music to YouTube Music discovered they weren’t even able to listen to their own libraries, as the new service only provided such capabilities with a subscription. Google later resolved the whole thing with a free tier, but at the end of the day, there’s still a lot to fix about YouTube Music on Android Auto. One of the most recent problems hitting both the phone and the car experiences concerns the song recommendation engine bundled with YouTube Music. As it turns out, some users receive a suggestion to play the same artist over and over again, even though they didn’t even previously like any of their songs. In other words, YouTube Music keeps insisting on playing the same artist even though the user skips their songs. The only way to deal with the whole thing is to spam the dislike…

The U.K. gunman who killed a 3-year-old child and four adults before turning the weapon on himself Thursday has been identified as a licensed gun owner who reportedly talked about his sexual failings and compared himself to “incels,” or involuntary celibates, in his final YouTube video. The shooter, 22-year-old Jake Davison, appeared to use the name Professor Waffle in an account that has since been taken down for violating YouTube’s community guidelines. His final 11-minute video showed him whining about being “beaten down and defeated” by life, missing out on “teenage love” and getting “uglier” every year, according to multiple U.K. media reports. Davison also referred to “people who are incels” — a fringe and misogynistic community of predominantly men who harbor anger toward women — saying they are “people similar to me, they’ve had nothing but themselves, and then they’ve socially had it tough.” Authorities in England said they were looking into the man’s videos and social media history, but they would not discuss a possible motive at this stage of the investigation. They did say, however, that there were no immediate signs that the massacre was connected to terrorism or right-wing violence. Jake Davison, appeared to use the…

Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin is one of YouTube’s biggest gaming personalities, with more than 27 million subscribers. But the Irish YouTuber has been taking a break from gaming content recently — it’s been a month since his last gaming video, an eon in the world of the YouTube algorithm. Polygon interviewed McLoughlin as part of the release of the Disney movie Free Guy, which features a Jacksepticeye cameo. We spoke to him about his recent hiatus from making games content, and asked him when he plans to return to making videos. “I think I’ll take a break for a little longer from it. It’s one of those things that I can always come back to, but right now I don’t really know what I’d even play,” McLoughlin said. McLoughlin’s last video with gameplay was published on June 13, and his last before that premiered at the end of May, a big contrast to his old schedule of uploading videos every day, or every other day. In his videos, McLoughlin buzzes with energy, often shouting as he comments on the game as he plays. In the past year he’s picked up titles ranging from Subnautica: Below Zero to Resident Evil Village, and…

Updated 18 hrs ago Updated 18 hrs ago | Posted on Aug 11, 2021 0 Social media platforms crack down on COVID-19 misinformation, with Senator Rand Paul the latest to suffer a suspension from YouTube. (CNN, POOL, SENATE TV, RUMBLE.COM, TWITTER, @RANDPAUL, WYMT, @MTGREENEE, NEWSMAX, WLEX, TWITTER/@RANDPAUL, TWITTER/@MTGREENEE via CNN Wire) As featured on Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has been suspended from YouTube for seven days over a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting Covid-19, according to a YouTube spokesperson. There was a problem reporting this. Welcome to the discussion. Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated. Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything. Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person. Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has long contradicted health experts by claiming cloth masks are ineffective in limiting the spread of the coronavirus. After making that claim in a video on YouTube last week, he was tossed off the platform for a week. YouTube said it violated the site's ban on misinformation. Paul firing back, describing it as "a badge of honor," tweeting, "Leftwing cretins at YouTube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don't work." A badge of honor . . . leftwing cretins at Youtube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work. If you want to see the banned video go to Liberty Tree https://t.co/gsTUwuLZGL — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 10, 2021 Lisa Macpherson, a policy expert at Public Knowledge, an organization promoting freedom of expression online, said she understands why the video sharing site made that call.  "Public Knowledge has done a lot of research and tracking on how all of the digital platforms managed the onslaught of misinformation about COVID-19," Macpherson said. "One of the things that we learned, unfortunately, is information…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — YouTube has suspended U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for seven days after the Kentucky Republican posted a misleading video suggesting face masks don’t prevent infection by COVID-19. The video was also removed. It’s the second time in two weeks that YouTube has removed one of Paul’s videos for violating its rules on COVID misinformation. Paul responded to Tuesday’s suspension by calling it a “badge of honor.” Meanwhile on Twitter, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was suspended for a week on Tuesday for tweeting, falsely, that vaccines and masks don’t work to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. 

Likely to help surface new content to users, the desktop version of YouTube is now showing a pop-out video preview player when hovering over on-site content. We’re not entirely sure when this change arose, but in a similar manner to that of the YouTube mobile app you’ll now get a pop-out preview player that will begin playing videos in their entirety when you hover your mouse cursor over video thumbnails. Previously this would only show a silent looping gif of the video in question, but thanks to this change videos are given far greater prominence. Not only that, but you also have the ability to toggle this mini-player volume and any associated video captions. There’s also the ability to “Watch later” or “Add to queue” along with the expanded three-dot menu that gives further options. You can even scrub through the content, effectively allowing you to watch videos without ever leaving your Home feed. YouTube videos will keep playing in the background on started via this new pop-out preview player, that is so long as you don’t hover over another video and initiate playback. It’s a nice addition, but one that might not necessarily be useful in every instance. You…