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  • YouTube removes a number of movies posted on Trump’s channel

    Image Source : AP YouTube removes a number of movies posted on Trump’s channel
     YouTube has eliminated a number of movies that US President Donald Trump has posted on his channel and warned that any channel discovered to be posting 3 times inside 90 days with false claims on US election outcomes shall be completely faraway from the Google-owned video platform.

    The transfer comes within the wake of the unprecedented storming of the US Capitol by Trump’s supporters on Wednesday and thus disrupting the constitutional means of counting and certification of the Electoral College votes of the presidential elections. Four individuals, together with a lady, died within the clashes between protesters and police.

    “Over the last month, we’ve removed thousands of videos which spread misinformation claiming widespread voter fraud changed the result of the 2020 election, including several videos that President Trump posted on Wednesday to his channel,” Google mentioned in a press release.

    “Due to the disturbing events that transpired on Wednesday, and given that the election results have been certified, any channel posting new videos with these false claims in violation of our policies will now receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming,” it mentioned.

    ALSO READ: Chaos, violence, mockery as pro-Trump mob occupies US Capitol, 4 lifeless

    “Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube,” Google mentioned in its assertion.

    Trump’s YouTube channel has 2.68 million subscribers. Following the violence that erupted on the US Capitol after his supporters stormed the constructing, YouTube has eliminated most of his movies from the rally he addressed earlier within the day.

    YouTube believes that these movies alleging widespread fraud within the 2020 elections violated its insurance policies.

    YouTube mentioned that grace interval was alleged to expire on January 21, after Inauguration Day. But because the election outcomes have been licensed, after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, the Google -owned video platform says it is ending the grace interval now.

    Earlier, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that President Donald Trump’s accounts on its widespread social media platforms – Facebook and Instagram – would stay suspended till the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20.

    Announcing the choice, Zuckerberg mentioned the danger of permitting President Trump to proceed to make use of the platform throughout this era is “simply too great.” This is for the primary time most likely that Facebook has taken such an excessive step to ban and block the social media handles of a head of the State and that too of the United States.

    On Wednesday, Twitter additionally blocked Trump’s account for 12 hours and eliminated three of his tweets together with a video.
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  • Facebook, YouTube pull Trump video after protesters storm US Capitol

    Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s YouTube took down a video from President Donald Trump on Wednesday that continued to make the baseless declare the election was fraudulent as he instructed protesters who had stormed the US Capitol to go dwelling. Facebook’s vp of integrity Guy Rosen tweeted the social media firm believed the video “contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence,” saying the motion was a part of “appropriate emergency measures.”Google-owned YouTube mentioned the video violated its coverage in opposition to content material that alleges “widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Election.” YouTube spokesman Farshad Shadloo added the corporate does enable copies that embody extra context. Click right here for dwell updates of US Capitol breach Twitter Inc restricted customers from retweeting the video “due to a risk of violence,” as a whole bunch of protesters sought to drive Congress to undo the president’s election loss to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.Twitter additionally restricted a later tweet from Trump, once more falsely alleging he had gained the election.Social media firms have been underneath stress to police misinformation on their platforms across the election. Trump and his allies have repeatedly unfold unsubstantiated claims of election fraud which have proliferated on-line.In a press release on Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League referred to as for social media firms to droop Trump’s accounts, saying the occasions on the Capitol resulted from “fear and disinformation that has been spewed directly from the Oval Office.”Also Read | Woman shot at US Capitol has died: PoliceFormer Facebook safety chief Alex Stamos tweeted: “Twitter and Facebook have to cut him off. There are no legitimate equities left and labeling won’t do it.”A White House spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.According to researchers and public postings, violent rhetoric and recommendation on weaponry ramped up considerably prior to now three weeks on many social media platforms as a number of teams deliberate rallies for Wednesday, together with Trump supporters, white nationalists and lovers of the wide-ranging conspiracy idea QAnon.

  • YouTube suspends Murdoch-backed radio station in UK

    Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube suspended the channel of a News Corp.-owned radio station within the U.Ok., saying it breached the platform’s content material requirements.Links that beforehand led to TalkRadio’s YouTube web page on Tuesday contained a message that the account had been “terminated for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”“We urgently await a detailed response from Google/YouTube about the nature of the breach,” TalkRadio stated in an announcement, including that its content material is regulated by U.Ok. media watchdog Ofcom. Representatives for YouTube didn’t reply to requests for remark, and it’s not but clear what triggered the suspension.Blocking a information model run by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch marks one in all YouTube’s highest profile suspensions. It’s beforehand taken down swathes of content material together with the account of the Trump-supporting One America News Network, citing breaches of guidelines.Murdoch’s News Corp. purchased TalkRadio’s proprietor Wireless Group in 2016, and has just lately expanded its digital broadcast media providing additional. He’s been an outspoken critic of Silicon Valley know-how corporations as he pushes for what he deems a fairer share of their promoting income.TalkRadio presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer complained concerning the transfer on Twitter. Without naming YouTube particularly, she requested authorities Minister Michael Gove about huge tech “censorship” on her Tuesday morning present.TalkRadio calls itself the “home of free speech” in its Twitter biography and its presenters have questioned the knowledge of presidency lockdown measures aimed toward halting the unfold of the coronavirus pandemic.“We regularly interrogate government data and we have controls in place,” TalkRadio stated. “We use verifiable sources and give space to a careful selection of voices and opinions.”

  • Google Search to quickly present ‘short video’ outcomes from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube

    Google is engaged on a brand new search function that can combine quick video outcomes into searches. The new function was first identified by Twitter customers Saad AK and Brian Freiesleben. The customers reported that the quick video carousel would solely present up for sure key phrases like ‘biryani’ and ‘packers’. We had been capable of replicate and make sure the identical. Clicking on a brief video outcome gave us the selection of opening the lead to both the identical browser or the devoted app. TikTok movies had been, nevertheless, not capable of open because the app has been banned within the nation.
    In India, Google’s Discover feed has began displaying quick movies from the platform Firework TV. But within the new function, Google Search will begin displaying quick movies from TikTok and Instagram within the search outcomes. It is feasible that Google could help different quick video apps later.

    As per studies, the brand new function will permit customers to open quick movies that present up in search outcomes proper from the Google App, while not having to enter the quick video app individually. Google has additionally confirmed this function, in accordance with a report by TechCrunch.
    The function is at the moment being examined solely on the cell app and web site, and is as of now, in its early levels. The Short Videos carousel will likely be completely different from the trappable Google Stories format, which was rolled out in October 2020.
    Check out the tweet under:

    I’m seeing “Short Videos” carousel on cell. But not for each question. It’s uncommon I suppose.Query was: Biryani
    Sending to @rustybrick SIR.CC: @Suzzicks MAM. pic.twitter.com/3Wf0FnPuxg
    — Saad AK (@SaadAlikhan1994) November 2, 2020
    The function ought to roll out to extra customers quickly and also needs to incorporate a wider vary of search outcomes sooner or later. With quick movies changing into a rising pattern in lots of components of the world, it could be handy to search out search outcomes for brief movies from a number of platforms, multi functional place.
    In India, Google’s Discover Feed is already displaying content material from Firework platform, which has quick movies as properly. The Google Discover feed exhibits content material from numerous sources based mostly on a person’s pursuits. This is the primary time that the corporate has began displaying quick movies on this feed.

  • Sangram Singh’s Youtube channel hacked, wrestler urges authorities to take strict motion

    Image Source : TWITTER/SANGRAM SINGH Sangram Singh’s Youtube channel hacked
    After Farah Khan’s Twitter deal with and Vikrant Massey’s Facebook profile, wrestler and motivational speaker Sangram Singh introduced that his Youtube Channel was hacked and subsequently taken down. Sangram on Tuesday shared this info on his Twitter deal with and urged the federal government to take strict motion in opposition to these at fault. He additionally voiced concern over the privateness and safety of harmless individuals of the nation.

    Through a video message, health coach Sangram Singh revealed he has lodged a police grievance and had additionally intimated cyber crime cell concerning the matter that left him in full shock. Talking to India TV, Sangram stated that the hacker did a LIVE session on ‘cryptocurrency’ and later deleted that video. Following which YouTube filed a coverage violation case and took down his channel. The incident occurred final night (Monday) round 9pm. 

    “Hello, I urge our Minister of Law and Justice of India @rsprasad to take strict action on this and save a lot of innocent people from this conspiracy. There should be a strict law against all those who indulge in hacking as the country will only be able to progress when honest and innocent people are safe,” the Wrestler tweeted in Hindi. 

    नमस्ते मैं हमारे कानून और सूचना प्रसारण मंत्री श्री @rsprasad जी से गुजारिश करूंगा कि इस पर एक्शन ले और ढेर सारे मासूम लोगों को इस षड्यंत्र से बचाएं और यह सब करने वालों के खिलाफ सख्त से सख्त सजा का कानून बनाया जाए, देश तभी आगे बढ़ेगा जब ईमानदार और निर्दोष लोग सुरक्षित रहेंगे 🙏 pic.twitter.com/8UXT06aKIX— SANGRAM U SINGH (@Sangram_Sanjeet) December 29, 2020

    Besides incomes nationwide and worldwide fame as a wrestler, Sangram Singh can also be an actor, motivational speaker, philanthropist, and well being guru. He has appeared in quite a lot of actuality tv exhibits, corresponding to Survivor India, and was a finalist of season seven of Bigg Boss in 2013 and lots of others. 

    In July 2015, he received the Commonwealth Heavyweight Wrestling Championship that was held in South Africa.He was additionally awarded the title of World’s Best Wrestler by the World Wrestling Professionals. His YouTube channel motivates youth of our nation to eat and keep wholesome.