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MrBeast sued over ‘unsafe’ environment on upcoming Amazon reality show

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 18:51

Popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson accused of harmful conditions behind scenes of competition show Beast Games

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning the $5m grand prize on his new Amazon reality show, in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants.

The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube ’s most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted meal breaks and rest time for competitors – whose “work on the show was the entertainment product” sold by MrBeast.

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Corruption de mineur : le youtubeur ExperimentBoy bientôt fixé sur son sort, après une longue procédure

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Yesterday - 13:58

Le verdict du procès de Baptiste Mortier-Dumont, alias ExperimentBoy, ex-star de YouTube spécialisée dans la vulgarisation scientifique à travers des vidéos déjantées, sera rendu mi-octobre. Il est poursuivi depuis quatre ans pour des faits de corruption de mineur dont Numerama avait révélé l'ampleur dans une enquête.

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Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 8 August - 13:21

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Google and Meta made a secret deal to target advertisements for Instagram to teenagers on YouTube, skirting the search company’s own rules for how minors are treated online.

According to documents seen by the Financial Times and people familiar with the matter, Google worked on a marketing project for Meta that was designed to target 13- to 17-year-old YouTube users with adverts that promoted its rival’s photo and video app.

The Instagram campaign deliberately targeted a group of users labeled as “unknown” in its advertising system, which Google knew skewed toward under-18s, these people said. Meanwhile, documents seen by the FT suggest steps were taken to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised.

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Ce que YouTube imagine encore pour mener la vie dure aux adblockers

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 14 June - 05:14

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Google est suspecté de mettre en place une nouvelle solution technique pour contrer les bloqueurs de publicités. Il s'agirait en somme de fusionner les vidéos d'annonce directement dans le flux vidéo, pour qu'on ne puisse plus les distinguer.

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Venezuela arrests YouTuber for ‘terrorism’ amid pre-election crackdown

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 16:55

Detention of influencer Oscar Alejandro Pérez at Caracas airport en route to southern national park raises free speech concerns

A popular Venezuelan YouTuber has been arrested in Caracas on terrorism charges as President Nicolás Maduro’s government steps up its crackdown on free speech ahead of upcoming elections.

Oscar Alejandro Pérez was detained in the capital’s main airport on Sunday by police on accusations of terrorism, his family said.

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Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 27 March - 20:25

Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat usage to confuse advertisers, court docs say

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Unsealed court documents have revealed more details about a secret Facebook project initially called "Ghostbusters," designed to sneakily access encrypted Snapchat usage data to give Facebook a leg up on its rival, just when Snapchat was experiencing rapid growth in 2016.

The documents were filed in a class-action lawsuit from consumers and advertisers, accusing Meta of anticompetitive behavior that blocks rivals from competing in the social media ads market.

"Whenever someone asks a question about Snapchat, the answer is usually that because their traffic is encrypted, we have no analytics about them," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who has since rebranded his company as Meta) wrote in a 2016 email to Javier Olivan.

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YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate’s videos, court says

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 5 September, 2023 - 20:08

YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate’s videos, court says

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A prominent anti-vaccine activist, Joseph Mercola, yesterday lost a lawsuit attempting to force YouTube to provide access to videos that were removed from the platform after YouTube banned his channels.

Mercola had tried to argue that YouTube owed him more than $75,000 in damages for breaching its own user contract and denying him access to his videos. However, in an order dismissing Mercola's complaint, US magistrate judge Laurel Beeler wrote that according to the contract Mercola signed, YouTube was "under no obligation to host" Mercola's content after terminating his channel in 2021 "for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines by posting medical misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines."

"The court found no breach because 'there is no provision in the Terms of Service that requires YouTube to maintain particular content' or be a 'storage site for users’ content,'" Beeler wrote.

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Sony copyright claims for Bewitched spell trouble for group that preserves old TV

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 5 September, 2023 - 19:45

Promotional art for the 1960s television show, Bewitched

Enlarge / Everyday witch Samantha Stephens and the rest of the Bewitched crew. (credit: Sony)

A nonprofit that preserves classic television videos may have its YouTube channel shut down tomorrow over copyright claims for Bewitched episodes that originally aired in the 1960s.

The Museum of Classic Chicago Television has about 5,000 videos, including many decades-old commercials and news shows, posted on its YouTube channel and its own Fuzzy Memories website . President and chief curator Rick Klein's "quest to save vintage Chicago TV shows and commercials" was featured in a WBEZ story two years ago.

But after 16 years of Klein and his group, who rely on donors and volunteers, archiving old videos, the TV museum's YouTube channel on August 30 received six copyright strikes for posting 27 Bewitched episodes owned by Sony Pictures Television. Copyright complaints were sent by MarkScan , a "digital asset protection" firm that content owners hire to enforce copyrights. MarkScan has been sending copyright complaints on Sony's behalf since at least 2014 .

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YouTuber who crashed plane admits he did it for money and views

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 12 May, 2023 - 19:39 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Screenshot from Trevor Jacob's YouTube video "I Crashed My Airplane." (credit: TrevorJacob on YouTube )

A YouTuber who deliberately crashed a plane to "gain notoriety and make money" has agreed to plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced yesterday. In his plea agreement, California pilot Trevor Jacob admitted to "deliberately destroying" the plane wreckage and repeatedly lying to officials.

The crimes of destruction and concealment with intent to impede a federal investigation carry a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment and a potential fine of up to $250,000. The Los Angeles district court may impose a lesser sentence due to the plea deal, though.

Jacob is scheduled to appear in court in the coming weeks, the DOJ reported. A DOJ public information officer, Ciaran McEvoy, told Ars that Jacob has not yet pleaded guilty. After an initial court appearance—essentially a bond hearing—a change of plea hearing will be scheduled. If Jacob pleads guilty at that hearing, a federal judge will schedule a sentencing hearing several months later. From there, Jacob would meet with the US Probation Office, which will draft a confidential pre-sentencing report recommending the sentence that the office thinks he deserves. Jacob and the prosecutors can either agree or disagree with that sentencing report, and then, ultimately, a judge will determine what sentence is imposed.

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