A brooding military veteran and former teacher who railed at women and blacks in a series of poorly lit videos shot two women to death and wounded five other people at a Florida yoga studio before killing himself.

The Friday evening shooting at a busy upscale shopping plaza jolted the state capital and police said they were still searching for a motive that led to the deaths of a Florida State University student and a well-known local doctor who was a member of the school faculty.

But details about 40-year-old Scott Paul Beierle began to emerge in the hours after, including that he had once been banned from FSU's campus and had been arrested twice for grabbing women even though the charges were ultimately dropped.

Beierle, who had moved to the central Florida town of Deltona after getting a graduate degree from FSU, also appear to post a series of videos on YouTube in 2014 where he called women "whores" if they dated black men, said many black women were "disgusting" and described himself as a misogynist.

He said promiscuous women deserved to be crucified and he suggested putting up land mines to keep people from crossing into the US from Mexico. The existence of the videos was first reported by BuzzFeed.

Tallahassee police say Beierle shot six people and pistol-whipped another after walking into the yoga studio that sits on the second floor of a shopping centre located near the city's fashionable midtown neighborhoods. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo said some in the studio showed courage by trying to stop him.

Witnesses at the shopping centre described how people who had been in the studio ran away, seeking shelter in nearby bars and restaurants as shots rang out.

Police responded within a few minutes, but by then Beirele had fatally shot himself, leaving police to search for a motive and a community to wonder what prompted the violence.

"It's a place that brings me joy and peace, and I think it's ruined," said Katie Bohnett, an instructor at the yoga studio who skipped her normal Friday practice to meet a friend for dinner.

"This monster ruined it." Police said Beierle acted alone but they were still looking into what prompted the shooting. He was originally from New York, had served in the military and once was a teacher in Maryland.

After his military service, he wound up attending FSU.

Kristi Malone, who had a graduate class with Beierle, said in a Facebook message that she did not interact with him outside of the classroom because of "his odd leering, inappropriate comments and general demeanor."

"I know that myself and several of my female colleagues made a point to never be alone with him even at school because of his odd behavior," Malone said.

Mike Orgo, who was friends with Beierle on Facebook, said he met him back in 2011 at comedy night open microphone sessions held at a Tallahassee restaurant. He said that he did not know him well but said he "definitely seemed angry and on edge".

Witnesses told police that Beierle posed as a customer to gain entrance to the studio, then started shooting without warning. Police have not yet said what kind of gun he used. Bohnett said that those at the studio Friday were yoga devotees. She said she did not recognize Beierle.

The two slain Friday were a student and faculty member at Florida State University, according to university officials. The department identified them as Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, and Maura Binkley, 21.

Binkley was a student from Atlanta who was due to graduate in May. Police said two other victims were in stable condition, and three had been released from the hospital.

Van Vessem was an internist who also served as chief medical director for Capital Health Plan, the area's leading health maintenance organisation. Court and FSU records show that Beierle had been previously arrested for grabbing women&nbsp;and had once been banned from FSU's campus.

Beierle was charged by police with battery in 2016 after he slapped and grabbed a woman's buttocks at an apartment complex pool. Records show that the charges were eventually dismissed after Beierle followed the conditions of a deferred prosecution agreement.

Beierle was also charged with battery in 2012 for grabbing women's buttocks in a university campus dining hall. A FSU police report shows that Beierle told police he may have accidentally bumped into someone, but denied grabbing anyone.

In 2014, Beierle was charged with trespassing at FSU. He had been seen following an FSU volleyball coach near the campus gym and was told that he was banned from campus. A month later police found him at a campus restaurant.

It was shortly after his trespassing charges that he posted the series of videos. A Tallahassee police spokesman would not confirm or deny the videos were Beierle.

Biographical details mentioned in the videos, however, match known facts about Beierle, including details about his military service. The videos were taken down by YouTube on Saturday.&nbsp;

A brooding military veteran and former teacher who railed at women and blacks in a series of poorly lit videos shot two women to death and wounded five other people at a Florida yoga studio before killing himself.

A brooding military veteran and former teacher who railed at women and blacks in a series of poorly lit videos shot two women to death and wounded five other people at a Florida yoga studio before killing himself. The Friday evening shooting at a busy upscale shopping plaza jolted the state capital and police said they were still searching for a motive that led to the deaths of a Florida State University student and a well-known local doctor who was a member of the school faculty. But details about 40-year-old Scott Paul Beierle began to emerge in the hours after, including that he had once been banned from FSU's campus and had been arrested twice for grabbing women even though the charges were ultimately dropped. Beierle, who had moved to the central Florida town of Deltona after getting a graduate degree from FSU, also appear to post a series of videos on YouTube in 2014 where he called women "whores" if they dated black men, said many black women were "disgusting" and described himself as a misogynist. He said promiscuous women deserved to be crucified and he suggested putting up land mines to keep people from crossing into the US from Mexico. The existence of the videos was first reported by BuzzFeed. Tallahassee police say Beierle shot six people and pistol-whipped another after walking into the yoga studio that sits on the second floor of a shopping centre located near the city's fashionable midtown neighborhoods. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo said some in the studio showed courage by trying to stop him. Witnesses at the shopping centre described how people who had been in the studio ran away, seeking shelter in nearby bars and restaurants as shots rang out. Police responded within a few minutes, but by then Beirele had fatally shot himself, leaving police to search for a motive and a community to wonder what prompted the violence. "It's a place that brings me joy and peace, and I think it's ruined," said Katie Bohnett, an instructor at the yoga studio who skipped her normal Friday practice to meet a friend for dinner. "This monster ruined it." Police said Beierle acted alone but they were still looking into what prompted the shooting. He was originally from New York, had served in the military and once was a teacher in Maryland. After his military service, he wound up attending FSU. Kristi Malone, who had a graduate class with Beierle, said in a Facebook message that she did not interact with him outside of the classroom because of "his odd leering, inappropriate comments and general demeanor." "I know that myself and several of my female colleagues made a point to never be alone with him even at school because of his odd behavior," Malone said. Mike Orgo, who was friends with Beierle on Facebook, said he met him back in 2011 at comedy night open microphone sessions held at a Tallahassee restaurant. He said that he did not know him well but said he "definitely seemed angry and on edge". Witnesses told police that Beierle posed as a customer to gain entrance to the studio, then started shooting without warning. Police have not yet said what kind of gun he used. Bohnett said that those at the studio Friday were yoga devotees. She said she did not recognize Beierle. The two slain Friday were a student and faculty member at Florida State University, according to university officials. The department identified them as Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, and Maura Binkley, 21. Binkley was a student from Atlanta who was due to graduate in May. Police said two other victims were in stable condition, and three had been released from the hospital. Van Vessem was an internist who also served as chief medical director for Capital Health Plan, the area's leading health maintenance organisation. Court and FSU records show that Beierle had been previously arrested for grabbing women and had once been banned from FSU's campus. Beierle was charged by police with battery in 2016 after he slapped and grabbed a woman's buttocks at an apartment complex pool. Records show that the charges were eventually dismissed after Beierle followed the conditions of a deferred prosecution agreement. Beierle was also charged with battery in 2012 for grabbing women's buttocks in a university campus dining hall. A FSU police report shows that Beierle told police he may have accidentally bumped into someone, but denied grabbing anyone. In 2014, Beierle was charged with trespassing at FSU. He had been seen following an FSU volleyball coach near the campus gym and was told that he was banned from campus. A month later police found him at a campus restaurant. It was shortly after his trespassing charges that he posted the series of videos. A Tallahassee police spokesman would not confirm or deny the videos were Beierle. Biographical details mentioned in the videos, however, match known facts about Beierle, including details about his military service. The videos were taken down by YouTube on Saturday.

US yoga studio shooter posted racist, misogynistic videos

Google-owned YouTube said on Tuesday a widespread issue with some of its services has been resolved, almost two hours after several people took to social media to complain about broadcasting issues.&nbsp;

The video streaming service earlier said it was looking into reports about access issues with YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music.&nbsp;

YouTube did not say what caused the outage.

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Google-owned YouTube said on Tuesday a widespread issue with some of its services has been resolved, almost two hours after several people took to social media to complain about broadcasting issues.

Google-owned YouTube said on Tuesday a widespread issue with some of its services has been resolved, almost two hours after several people took to social media to complain about broadcasting issues. The video streaming service earlier said it was looking into reports about access issues with YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music. YouTube did not say what caused the outage. We're back! Thanks for all of your patience. If you continue to experience issues, please let us know. https://t.co/NVU5GP7Sy6 — Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018 × Earlier, in a tweet, the company said it was aware of the problem affecting YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube music. It said: "Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated." Thanks for your reports about YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Music access issues. We're working on resolving this and will let you know once fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated. — Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2018 ×

YouTube back after brief outage; tweets 'thanks for your patience'

Facebook said Wednesday it was reviving the pioneering MTV reality show "The Real World" as its secret weapon to lure viewers away from YouTube.

The social media giant said it was also trying to harness the formidable online power of the "cute kitten" factor with a new show called "World's Most Amazing Dog" on its new Facebook Watch platform.

Users who think their pooch is cute enough to be a contender can enter audition videos from their phones, it told TV executives at MIPCOM in Cannes, the world's top entertainment showcase.

The company's head of video Paresh Rajwat said Facebook Watch -- which began to be rolled out in the US last year -- was now available across the world, with "the time people spend on it increasing by 14 times since".

"The Real World" was one of the first "social experiment" TV reality shows when it aired in 1992, spawning others like "Big Brother".

It turns on the moment when "seven strangers put together stop being polite and start being real," said Facebook's content and strategy chief Matthew Henick.

Three versions of the new Facebook variant of the show will be launched simultaneously in the US, Mexico and Thailand.&nbsp;

Users will be able to "co-watch with their friends and interact with the contestants", stealing a march on its internet rivals, Henick told the gathering in the French Riviera resort.

Rajwat said Facebook Watch was "completely open" and was already being used by broadcasters, with new contestants on Germany's "X Factor" recently being introduced to fans on the platform before they made their TV debuts.

He said its interactivity means "watching videos doesn't have to be a passive experience... with friends able to co-watch together in real time".

A new service called "Watch Party" allowing "people to watch and comment all at the same time" has already been used on celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's "Veggie Challenge", he added.

A Facebook Watch show called "Sorry For Your Loss" about a "young widow struggling to put her life back together has led to long meaningful conversations about dealing with grief", Rajwat said, with many users "offering help to people who lost their beloveds. This is where Facebook is different," he said.

MTV boss Chris McCarthy predicted that Facebook Watch was going to "create a whole a new genre of shared reality TV", and help shows lift off when it was "harder and harder to break through with more and more content" out there.

Facebook said Wednesday it was reviving the pioneering MTV reality show "The Real World" as its secret weapon to lure viewers away from YouTube. The social media giant said it was also trying to harness the formidable online power of the "cute kitten" factor with a new show called "World's Most Amazing Dog" on its new Facebook Watch platform.

Facebook said Wednesday it was reviving the pioneering MTV reality show "The Real World" as its secret weapon to lure viewers away from YouTube. The social media giant said it was also trying to harness the formidable online power of the "cute kitten" factor with a new show called "World's Most Amazing Dog" on its new Facebook Watch platform. Users who think their pooch is cute enough to be a contender can enter audition videos from their phones, it told TV executives at MIPCOM in Cannes, the world's top entertainment showcase. The company's head of video Paresh Rajwat said Facebook Watch -- which began to be rolled out in the US last year -- was now available across the world, with "the time people spend on it increasing by 14 times since". "The Real World" was one of the first "social experiment" TV reality shows when it aired in 1992, spawning others like "Big Brother". It turns on the moment when "seven strangers put together stop being polite and start being real," said Facebook's content and strategy chief Matthew Henick. Three versions of the new Facebook variant of the show will be launched simultaneously in the US, Mexico and Thailand. Users will be able to "co-watch with their friends and interact with the contestants", stealing a march on its internet rivals, Henick told the gathering in the French Riviera resort. Rajwat said Facebook Watch was "completely open" and was already being used by broadcasters, with new contestants on Germany's "X Factor" recently being introduced to fans on the platform before they made their TV debuts. He said its interactivity means "watching videos doesn't have to be a passive experience... with friends able to co-watch together in real time". A new service called "Watch Party" allowing "people to watch and comment all at the same time" has already been used on celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's "Veggie Challenge", he added. A Facebook Watch show called "Sorry For Your Loss" about a "young widow struggling to put her life back together has led to long meaningful conversations about dealing with grief", Rajwat said, with many users "offering help to people who lost their beloveds. This is where Facebook is different," he said. MTV boss Chris McCarthy predicted that Facebook Watch was going to "create a whole a new genre of shared reality TV", and help shows lift off when it was "harder and harder to break through with more and more content" out there.

Facebook has a plan to take on YouTube: Reality TV

The use of YouTube as a medium for broadcasting terrorist propaganda and conspiracy videos is gradually declining, according to reports by an intelligence group that keeps a check on online terrorism.

An analysis conducted by Site Intelligence Group, Islamic State and al-Qaeda have moved to file-sharing portals like Dropbox Inc., Google Drive, and Google Photos.

These file-hosting services became the top-used services to share countless historical documentaries, battle footage, video speeches etc.

Once uploaded, links to this content are typically disseminated on social media platforms like Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., and Telegram Messenger to reach as wide an audience as possible.

The report by Site, which analyzed more than 27,000 web links between April 1 and August 31 this year, comes as the European Union pushes for new legislation to force internet companies to wipe terror content from their services within an hour of being notified of it. They may face fines if they fail to do so.&nbsp;

Also read:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/youtube-under-scanner-for-showing-ads-on-extremist-channels-report-132347">YouTube under </a><a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/youtube-under-scanner-for-showing-ads-on-extremist-channels-report-132347">scanner</a><a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/youtube-under-scanner-for-showing-ads-on-extremist-channels-report-132347"> for showing ads on extremist channels</a>

It was earlier reported that YouTube users were being recommended videos from extremist sources broadcasting conspiracy videos.&nbsp;

YouTube came under scrutiny after ads from over 300 companies were shown on channels which promoted and included content about white nationalists, Nazis pedophilia, conspiracy theories and North Korean propaganda.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had been called to testify before Congress in high-profile hearings that questioned their products, politics, and allegiances.

With nearly 2 billion unique users a month, the platform is used by 94 per cent of 18-24-year-olds regularly, and one in five members of this group go to YouTube first to get their news, according to the Pew Research Center.&nbsp;

With such a large audience and little oversight, many political extremists have turned to YouTube to spread their views and make money doing it.

The use of YouTube as a medium for broadcasting terrorist propaganda and conspiracy videos is gradually declining, according to reports by an intelligence group that keeps a check on online terrorism.

The use of YouTube as a medium for broadcasting terrorist propaganda and conspiracy videos is gradually declining, according to reports by an intelligence group that keeps a check on online terrorism. An analysis conducted by Site Intelligence Group, Islamic State and al-Qaeda have moved to file-sharing portals like Dropbox Inc., Google Drive, and Google Photos. These file-hosting services became the top-used services to share countless historical documentaries, battle footage, video speeches etc. Once uploaded, links to this content are typically disseminated on social media platforms like Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., and Telegram Messenger to reach as wide an audience as possible. The report by Site, which analyzed more than 27,000 web links between April 1 and August 31 this year, comes as the European Union pushes for new legislation to force internet companies to wipe terror content from their services within an hour of being notified of it. They may face fines if they fail to do so. Also read: YouTube under scanner for showing ads on extremist channels It was earlier reported that YouTube users were being recommended videos from extremist sources broadcasting conspiracy videos. YouTube came under scrutiny after ads from over 300 companies were shown on channels which promoted and included content about white nationalists, Nazis pedophilia, conspiracy theories and North Korean propaganda. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had been called to testify before Congress in high-profile hearings that questioned their products, politics, and allegiances. With nearly 2 billion unique users a month, the platform is used by 94 per cent of 18-24-year-olds regularly, and one in five members of this group go to YouTube first to get their news, according to the Pew Research Center. With such a large audience and little oversight, many political extremists have turned to YouTube to spread their views and make money doing it.

Extremists drop use of YouTube to spread terrorist propaganda, move to Google drive, Google Photos

Social media went crazy and the toddlers were addicted when the "Baby Shark" song first came on, making it to the top of the charts in the UK.&nbsp;

The song, which was originally made by a SmartStudy, a South Korean video and education company that controls the Pinkfong brand, was watched by over 1.6 billion viewers on YouTube.&nbsp;

The tune has swept the world and even sparked its own challenge akin to the Kiki Challenge which sprung up around Drake’s In My Feelings tune.

The song inspired several people to take up the "baby shark challenge" and posting videos of them attempting to copy the easy shark moves in the original video.&nbsp;

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The song also climbed to UK's top 50 charts at the 37th place.

"Baby Shark" is a nursery-rhyme-like song that continuously repeats the line "doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo" after naming each member of the shark family.&nbsp;

It was originally released in Indonesia in 2014, and again in 2016, but has only recently become a phenomenon. It is now among the Top 40 most-viewed songs ever, standing at the 35th place.

However, the song recently stirred controversy and has been embroiled in a sexism row over its lyrics. The version of the song in its native South Korea brands the mummy shark "pretty" and the daddy shark "strong".

A South Korean newspaper, Kyunghyang Shinmun, said that the lyrics reinforce sexist prejudices which triggering threats of legal action for copyright infringement from SmartStudy.&nbsp;

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Social media went crazy and the toddlers were addicted when the "Baby Shark" song first came on, making it to the top of the charts in the UK. The song, which was originally made by a SmartStudy, a South Korean video and education company that controls the Pinkfong brand, was watched by over 1.

Social media went crazy and the toddlers were addicted when the "Baby Shark" song first came on, making it to the top of the charts in the UK. The song, which was originally made by a SmartStudy, a South Korean video and education company that controls the Pinkfong brand, was watched by over 1.6 billion viewers on YouTube. The tune has swept the world and even sparked its own challenge akin to the Kiki Challenge which sprung up around Drake’s In My Feelings tune. The song inspired several people to take up the "baby shark challenge" and posting videos of them attempting to copy the easy shark moves in the original video. “The Baby Shark Challenge” is apparently a Facebook thing. The parent in me can’t stop smiling at this video. pic.twitter.com/myou0ZMtSC — K. ✨ (@LifeAsKris) August 18, 2018 × The song also climbed to UK's top 50 charts at the 37th place. "Baby Shark" is a nursery-rhyme-like song that continuously repeats the line "doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo" after naming each member of the shark family. It was originally released in Indonesia in 2014, and again in 2016, but has only recently become a phenomenon. It is now among the Top 40 most-viewed songs ever, standing at the 35th place. However, the song recently stirred controversy and has been embroiled in a sexism row over its lyrics. The version of the song in its native South Korea brands the mummy shark "pretty" and the daddy shark "strong". A South Korean newspaper, Kyunghyang Shinmun, said that the lyrics reinforce sexist prejudices which triggering threats of legal action for copyright infringement from SmartStudy. ×

Children’s 'Baby Shark' song goes viral, tops UK charts

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday there were no plans to shut down social media sites or limit internet freedoms in Russia, and that a "civilised" solution was needed to make the internet safer.

Russia blocked the online messaging service Telegram in April after it refused to grant state security services access to its users' encrypted messages.

Critics called the move internet censorship.

Putin was asked by a blogger on national television during his marathon annual call-in on Thursday whether Russia might block Instagram and YouTube.

Putin said he was up-to-speed with the situation with the move to ban Telegram and added: "We are not going to close anything."

He said his primary concern was people's safety.

"At the same time, I also worked in the security services and know it is easiest to ban, and harder to find civilised solutions," he said.

"Therefore, I'm going to urge all my colleagues to take this route, the route of ... using modern methods to combat offences, including terrorism, without restricting freedoms, including those on the internet."

Putin was asked by a blogger on national television during his marathon annual call-in on Thursday whether Russia might block Instagram and YouTube

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday there were no plans to shut down social media sites or limit internet freedoms in Russia, and that a "civilised" solution was needed to make the internet safer. Russia blocked the online messaging service Telegram in April after it refused to grant state security services access to its users' encrypted messages. Critics called the move internet censorship. Putin was asked by a blogger on national television during his marathon annual call-in on Thursday whether Russia might block Instagram and YouTube. Putin said he was up-to-speed with the situation with the move to ban Telegram and added: "We are not going to close anything." He said his primary concern was people's safety. "At the same time, I also worked in the security services and know it is easiest to ban, and harder to find civilised solutions," he said. "Therefore, I'm going to urge all my colleagues to take this route, the route of ... using modern methods to combat offences, including terrorism, without restricting freedoms, including those on the internet."

Vladimir Putin says Russia must not use blanket bans to make internet safer

Nearly a 100 women have come forward to say they suffered complications after undergoing treatment by a US dermatologist — who made rap videos while she operated on her patients.

The videos — which show Dr Windell Boutte rapping and dancing, sometimes along with her staff, while patients lie on her operating table — were uploaded on YouTube.&nbsp;

A lawsuit against Dr Boutte was filed by lawyer Susan Witt on behalf of three women.&nbsp;

But news reports quoted Witt as saying scores of other women had come forward after the newspapers picked up the story.&nbsp;

Many of the women said they could recognise themselves, lying inert in Dr Boutte's surgery, in the YouTube videos.&nbsp;

Dr Boutte continues to practise medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.&nbsp;

The videos of her have been taken down from YouTube.&nbsp;

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The videos — which show Dr Windell Boutte rapping and dancing, sometimes along with her staff, while patients lie on her operating table — were uploaded on YouTube

Nearly a 100 women have come forward to say they suffered complications after undergoing treatment by a US dermatologist — who made rap videos while she operated on her patients. The videos — which show Dr Windell Boutte rapping and dancing, sometimes along with her staff, while patients lie on her operating table — were uploaded on YouTube. A lawsuit against Dr Boutte was filed by lawyer Susan Witt on behalf of three women. But news reports quoted Witt as saying scores of other women had come forward after the newspapers picked up the story. Many of the women said they could recognise themselves, lying inert in Dr Boutte's surgery, in the YouTube videos. Dr Boutte continues to practise medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. The videos of her have been taken down from YouTube.

Watch: Lawsuit filed against US doc who made rap videos while operating on patients

Robotics YouTube star Simone Giertz has gone into surgery to remove a brain tumor.

Giertz posted a touching video to social media before her surgery, making jokes and reassuring her fans.

She is out of surgery and her doctors are very pleased with how everything went as the tweet read,

"Simone is out of surgery and her doctors are very pleased with how everything went. She woke up long enough to make an inappropriate joke... so things are looking good."Fans took to Twitter to support and send good wishes to her.

A fan wrote, "Oh, you know. Just tearing up thinking about @SimoneGiertz and how beautiful the Internet is - how great it is that so many of us can be rooting for an unlikely queen of shitty robots and her battle against Brian, the stupid brain tumor.

Praying for good news soon."Another fan tweeted, "For everyone who loves @SimoneGiertz`s Shitty Robots this is very good news."

A fan uploaded a hilarious GIF. The tweet read, "Yayyyyyy! Wishing her a speedy recovery."

She was diagnosed with a non-cancerous growth in her brain.&nbsp;

Giertz posted a touching video on social media before her surgery, making jokes and reassuring her fans.

Robotics YouTube star Simone Giertz has gone into surgery to remove a brain tumor. Giertz posted a touching video to social media before her surgery, making jokes and reassuring her fans. She is out of surgery and her doctors are very pleased with how everything went as the tweet read, "Simone is out of surgery and her doctors are very pleased with how everything went. She woke up long enough to make an inappropriate joke... so things are looking good."Fans took to Twitter to support and send good wishes to her. A fan wrote, "Oh, you know. Just tearing up thinking about @SimoneGiertz and how beautiful the Internet is - how great it is that so many of us can be rooting for an unlikely queen of shitty robots and her battle against Brian, the stupid brain tumor. Praying for good news soon."Another fan tweeted, "For everyone who loves @SimoneGiertz`s Shitty Robots this is very good news." A fan uploaded a hilarious GIF. The tweet read, "Yayyyyyy! Wishing her a speedy recovery." She was diagnosed with a non-cancerous growth in her brain.

YouTube star Simone Giertz undergoes brain surgery

Egypt's top administrative on Saturday directed that the regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube for one month over a video that denigrates the Prophet Mohammad.&nbsp

The ruling is considered final and cannot be appealed.

Mohamed Hamid Salem, an Egyptian lawyer filed a lawsuit against YouTube for publishing the low-budget 13-minute video.

The ministry at the time said it would be impossible to enforce the ruling without also disrupting Google’s Internet search engine, incurring potentially huge costs and job losses in the Arab world’s most populous country.

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology was not immediately available for comment. YouTube appeared to be working in Egypt on Saturday as of 1250 GMT (8.50 a.m ET).

The film “Innocence of Muslims”, a low-budget 13-minute video, was billed as a film trailer and made in California with private funding. It provoked a wave of anti-American unrest in Egypt and other Muslim countries when it appeared in 2012.

Since May 2017, an anonymous authority in Egypt has been banning hundreds of websites, including News websites, citing links to terrorism. The banning measure has received severe backlash from rights organizations including the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) and international bodies.

Mohamed Hamid Salem, an Egyptian lawyer filed a lawsuit against YouTube for publishing the low-budget 13-minute video

Egypt's top administrative on Saturday directed that the regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube for one month over a video that denigrates the Prophet Mohammad. The ruling is considered final and cannot be appealed. Mohamed Hamid Salem, an Egyptian lawyer filed a lawsuit against YouTube for publishing the low-budget 13-minute video. The ministry at the time said it would be impossible to enforce the ruling without also disrupting Google’s Internet search engine, incurring potentially huge costs and job losses in the Arab world’s most populous country. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology was not immediately available for comment. YouTube appeared to be working in Egypt on Saturday as of 1250 GMT (8.50 a.m ET). The film “Innocence of Muslims”, a low-budget 13-minute video, was billed as a film trailer and made in California with private funding. It provoked a wave of anti-American unrest in Egypt and other Muslim countries when it appeared in 2012. Since May 2017, an anonymous authority in Egypt has been banning hundreds of websites, including News websites, citing links to terrorism. The banning measure has received severe backlash from rights organizations including the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) and international bodies.

YouTube temporarily banned in Egypt after video denigrates Prophet Mohammad

Two of the world's biggest video streaming giants, Netflix and Google's YouTube, seem to have varying opinions when it comes to sleep.&nbsp;

While Google recently announced rolling out a feature that lets YouTube users set a "Take a break" reminder to limit prolonged viewing, Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings last month noted sleep as the company's biggest competition.&nbsp;

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Netflix enjoys close to 125 million users worldwide, but Hastings had previously admitted having got "YouTube envy”.

Google recently announced rolling out a feature that lets YouTube users set a "Take a break" reminder to limit prolonged viewing

Two of the world's biggest video streaming giants, Netflix and Google's YouTube, seem to have varying opinions when it comes to sleep. While Google recently announced rolling out a feature that lets YouTube users set a "Take a break" reminder to limit prolonged viewing, Netflix's CEO Reed Hastings last month noted sleep as the company's biggest competition. Sleep is my greatest enemy. — Netflix US (@netflix) April 17, 2017 × “We’re competing with sleep, on the margin. And so, it’s a very large pool of time,” Hastings noted. And only then can you learn how to defeat it. — Netflix US (@netflix) April 17, 2017 × Netflix enjoys close to 125 million users worldwide, but Hastings had previously admitted having got "YouTube envy”.

While Netflix competes with sleep, YouTube wants users to 'take break'

If you think you spend too much time browsing videos on YouTube, Google's latest feature is just for you.

The company has rolled out a feature that lets a user set a "Take a break" reminder and limit video viewing time.&nbsp

A user will be able to set a reminder for every 15, 30, 60, 90 or 180 minutes. During the break, the video will pause automatically and a "Take a Break" notification will pop on the screen notifying that they have been binge-watching videos for longer than they decided to.

However, users can choose to dismiss the reminder and keep watching. The new feature will be rolled out in the latest update of YouTube.

However, users can choose to dismiss the reminder and keep watching

If you think you spend too much time browsing videos on YouTube, Google's latest feature is just for you. The company has rolled out a feature that lets a user set a "Take a break" reminder and limit video viewing time. A user will be able to set a reminder for every 15, 30, 60, 90 or 180 minutes. During the break, the video will pause automatically and a "Take a Break" notification will pop on the screen notifying that they have been binge-watching videos for longer than they decided to. However, users can choose to dismiss the reminder and keep watching. The new feature will be rolled out in the latest update of YouTube.

Google's new YouTube feature lets users take break from binge-watching

Malaysian authorities&nbsphave convicted a Danish man for&nbsp''fake news'' making it&nbspa first arrest&nbspunder the controversial law.

46-year-old man name Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman a Yemeni descent posted a video on YouTube accusing emergency services, police and ambulance responding late to the distress call after a Palestinian lecturer was gunned down in Kuala Lumpur&nbspon April 21.

In his video, Sulaiman claimed in Arabic that the authorities&nbsptook 50 minutes in responding to the distress calls after the incident took place whereas the police have disputed claiming that it took eight minutes to respond.

Sulaiman has&nbsppleaded guilty in court and said that he didn't mean to spread any kind of harm to the society as he apologised. He further said that the two-minute video was made under frustrated emotion.

He has been sentenced to a week by a local judge and fined with 10,000 ringgit.

The court has further directed to extend his imprisonment by one month if he fails to pay his fine.

Ahead of the upcoming elections in May, Malaysia introduced laws against fake news to crack down on people spreading false information and hate speech.

However, the law was criticised by the Malaysian media and experts as it has alleged that the law breaches constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. Some critics of the law are also seeing it as an attempt to suppress talks of the corruption ahead of the election.

Malaysia became one of the few countries who introduced laws against fake news issue. The law was passed earlier in April which makes spreading false news punishable by up to six years with a hefty fine of&nbsp500,000 ringgit.

46-year-old man name Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman a Yemeni descent posted a video on YouTube accusing emergency services, police and ambulance responding late to the distress call

Malaysian authorities&nbsphave convicted a Danish man for ''fake news'' making it&nbspa first arrest&nbspunder the controversial law. 46-year-old man name Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman a Yemeni descent posted a video on YouTube accusing emergency services, police and ambulance responding late to the distress call after a Palestinian lecturer was gunned down in Kuala Lumpur&nbspon April 21. In his video, Sulaiman claimed in Arabic that the authorities&nbsptook 50 minutes in responding to the distress calls after the incident took place whereas the police have disputed claiming that it took eight minutes to respond. Sulaiman has&nbsppleaded guilty in court and said that he didn't mean to spread any kind of harm to the society as he apologised. He further said that the two-minute video was made under frustrated emotion. He has been sentenced to a week by a local judge and fined with 10,000 ringgit. The court has further directed to extend his imprisonment by one month if he fails to pay his fine. Ahead of the upcoming elections in May, Malaysia introduced laws against fake news to crack down on people spreading false information and hate speech. However, the law was criticised by the Malaysian media and experts as it has alleged that the law breaches constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. Some critics of the law are also seeing it as an attempt to suppress talks of the corruption ahead of the election. Malaysia became one of the few countries who introduced laws against fake news issue. The law was passed earlier in April which makes spreading false news punishable by up to six years with a hefty fine of&nbsp500,000 ringgit.

Malaysia: First person convicted under fake news law

YouTube has come under scrutiny again after ads from over 300 companies were shown on channels which promoted and included content about white nationalists, Nazis pedophilia, conspiracy theories and North Korean propaganda, as per a report by CNN.&nbsp

Companies like Adidas, Under Armour, Facebook, Hilton, LinkedIn, Amazon etc have possibly&nbspunknowingly financed a few of these channels through these advertisements they paid for on YouTube. Ads from five US government agencies, such as the Department of Transportation and Centers for Disease Control, appeared on the channels.

According to the reports, the companies had no idea that their ads were being shown before videos which promoted extremist content and are now investigating the matter in more detail.&nbsp

However, this is not the first time YouTube has been in trouble. Previously, the company had come under fire for putting extremist content and for letting those channels make money for the videos. This is why many companies had removed themselves from YouTube's ad program while many others reduced the number of ads shared.

For example, a number of ads ran on Brian Ruhe's Nazi channel. YouTube subsequently deleted the channel for violating its community guidelines against spreading hate speech. But before its deletion, ads ran frequently on the channel.

The incidents have raised questions about whether YouTube can adequately safeguard ads and brands' integrity, or whether its automated systems mean that advertisers will always be at risk of such ad placements.

YouTube has made no comment over the reason behind the issue which have been continuing for a while.&nbsp

This is how YouTubers make money:&nbsp

YouTubers link their accounts with Google's AdSense program which delivers ads in exchange for a cut of ad revenue. However, a channel can only apply for monetisation if it reaches 4000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1000 subscribers so as to prevent spammers, impersonators and other bad actors from exploiting the ecosystem.&nbsp

One thing to note here is that there is no clarity as to how much a Youtuber is paid. There is fixed revenue model but it is believed that Youtube keeps about 40% of the revenue for itself.&nbsp

A lot of YouTubers remain totally clueless about how they are paid.&nbsp

Companies like Adidas, Under Armour, Facebook, Hilton, LinkedIn, Amazon etc have possible unknowingly financed a few of these channels through these advertisements they paid for on YouTube

YouTube has come under scrutiny again after ads from over 300 companies were shown on channels which promoted and included content about white nationalists, Nazis pedophilia, conspiracy theories and North Korean propaganda, as per a report by CNN. Companies like Adidas, Under Armour, Facebook, Hilton, LinkedIn, Amazon etc have possibly&nbspunknowingly financed a few of these channels through these advertisements they paid for on YouTube. Ads from five US government agencies, such as the Department of Transportation and Centers for Disease Control, appeared on the channels. According to the reports, the companies had no idea that their ads were being shown before videos which promoted extremist content and are now investigating the matter in more detail. However, this is not the first time YouTube has been in trouble. Previously, the company had come under fire for putting extremist content and for letting those channels make money for the videos. This is why many companies had removed themselves from YouTube's ad program while many others reduced the number of ads shared. For example, a number of ads ran on Brian Ruhe's Nazi channel. YouTube subsequently deleted the channel for violating its community guidelines against spreading hate speech. But before its deletion, ads ran frequently on the channel. The incidents have raised questions about whether YouTube can adequately safeguard ads and brands' integrity, or whether its automated systems mean that advertisers will always be at risk of such ad placements. YouTube has made no comment over the reason behind the issue which have been continuing for a while. This is how YouTubers make money: YouTubers link their accounts with Google's AdSense program which delivers ads in exchange for a cut of ad revenue. However, a channel can only apply for monetisation if it reaches 4000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1000 subscribers so as to prevent spammers, impersonators and other bad actors from exploiting the ecosystem. One thing to note here is that there is no clarity as to how much a Youtuber is paid. There is fixed revenue model but it is believed that Youtube keeps about 40% of the revenue for itself. A lot of YouTubers remain totally clueless about how they are paid.

YouTube under scanner for showing ads on extremist channels: Report

Consumer and activist groups called Monday for an investigation into Google-owned YouTube for allowing advertising to be targeted at children in apparent violation of US law.

The organizations said that although YouTube claims that the site is only for users 13 and up, Google generates significant profits from kid-targeted advertising on the video-sharing service.

Twenty-three organizations signed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), arguing that YouTube is among the most popular online platforms for children and offers many programs designed and promoted for children.

According to the complaint, Google collects personal information about minors on YouTube, including location, unique device identifiers and mobile telephone numbers, and uses that to target advertisements to kids across the internet, apparently without their parents' consent.

It noted that YouTube contains child-oriented channels such as ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs, with millions of subscribers, and that advertisers pay Google a premium to place their ads on a "parenting and family" lineup including channels aimed at children.

"For years, Google has abdicated its responsibility to kids and families by disingenuously claiming YouTube -- a site rife with popular cartoons, nursery rhymes and toy ads -- is not for children under 13," said Josh Golin of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, one of the groups filing the complaint.

Golin added: "Google profits immensely by delivering ads to kids and must comply with COPPA," the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy, another group signing the complaint, said that Google "has acted duplicitously by falsely claiming in its terms of service that YouTube is only for those who are age 13 or older, while it deliberately lured young people into an ad-filled digital playground."

Contacted by AFP, a Google spokesman said the company had not seen the complaint but that "protecting kids and families has always been a top priority for us."

The spokesman added in a statement, "Because YouTube is not for children, we've invested significantly in the creation of the YouTube Kids app to offer an alternative specifically designed for children."

Other groups signing the FTC complaint included Common Sense, Consumer Action, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

COPPA, passed by Congress in 1998, restricts websites' handling of data and advertising for children.&nbsp;

Several website operators have faced fines for violations, including Yelp and a unit of the Walt Disney Co.

The organizations said that although YouTube claims that the site is only for users 13 and up, Google generates significant profits from kid-targeted advertising on the video-sharing service

Consumer and activist groups called Monday for an investigation into Google-owned YouTube for allowing advertising to be targeted at children in apparent violation of US law. The organizations said that although YouTube claims that the site is only for users 13 and up, Google generates significant profits from kid-targeted advertising on the video-sharing service. Twenty-three organizations signed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), arguing that YouTube is among the most popular online platforms for children and offers many programs designed and promoted for children. According to the complaint, Google collects personal information about minors on YouTube, including location, unique device identifiers and mobile telephone numbers, and uses that to target advertisements to kids across the internet, apparently without their parents' consent. It noted that YouTube contains child-oriented channels such as ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs, with millions of subscribers, and that advertisers pay Google a premium to place their ads on a "parenting and family" lineup including channels aimed at children. "For years, Google has abdicated its responsibility to kids and families by disingenuously claiming YouTube -- a site rife with popular cartoons, nursery rhymes and toy ads -- is not for children under 13," said Josh Golin of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, one of the groups filing the complaint. Golin added: "Google profits immensely by delivering ads to kids and must comply with COPPA," the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy, another group signing the complaint, said that Google "has acted duplicitously by falsely claiming in its terms of service that YouTube is only for those who are age 13 or older, while it deliberately lured young people into an ad-filled digital playground." Contacted by AFP, a Google spokesman said the company had not seen the complaint but that "protecting kids and families has always been a top priority for us." The spokesman added in a statement, "Because YouTube is not for children, we've invested significantly in the creation of the YouTube Kids app to offer an alternative specifically designed for children." Other groups signing the FTC complaint included Common Sense, Consumer Action, the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. COPPA, passed by Congress in 1998, restricts websites' handling of data and advertising for children. Several website operators have faced fines for violations, including Yelp and a unit of the Walt Disney Co.

Consumer groups seek probe of YouTube over ads for kids

According to reports, the woman attacker who opened fire at YouTube Headquarters near San Francisco earlier today had complaints about YouTube.

Reuters reports that the woman had previously "voiced complaints online about YouTube". &nbsp;

Local American media, citing unnamed sources, identified the woman as Nasim Aghdam.

San Bruno police officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the identity of the attacker.

The report suggests a website called NasimeSabz to have been linked to the attacker. The website contained several posts about "Persian culture and veganism, interspersed with screeds against YouTube".

Some of the complainants claimed that YouTube was not sharing enough revenue with those involved in generating video content for the company.

"There is no equal growth opportunity on YouTube or any other video-sharing site, your channel will grow if they want to," read one of the complaints on the website.

A YouTube account in the name of Nasime Sabz was deleted on Tuesday evening, Reuters reported.&nbsp;

YouTube spokeswoman Jessica Mason could not immediately be reached for comment on the identification by media.

The local police have not released the name or any other details of the culprit who shot herself after wounding four people no known connection to terrorism was established.

A leading American media house, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, said the suspect was 35 to 40 years old and lived in Southern California.

Last month, YouTube announced it would ban content promoting the sale of guns and gun accessories, as well as videos that teach how to make guns.

Female mass shooters are rare. A recent Washington Post analysis shows only three out of 150 US shootings with more than four victims since 1966 were done by women. In 2015, a husband and wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.

(With inputs from Reuters)&nbsp;

The report suggests a website called NasimeSabz to have been linked to the attacker

According to reports, the woman attacker who opened fire at YouTube Headquarters near San Francisco earlier today had complaints about YouTube. Reuters reports that the woman had previously "voiced complaints online about YouTube". Local American media, citing unnamed sources, identified the woman as Nasim Aghdam. San Bruno police officials could not immediately be reached for comment on the identity of the attacker. The report suggests a website called NasimeSabz to have been linked to the attacker. The website contained several posts about "Persian culture and veganism, interspersed with screeds against YouTube". Some of the complainants claimed that YouTube was not sharing enough revenue with those involved in generating video content for the company. "There is no equal growth opportunity on YouTube or any other video-sharing site, your channel will grow if they want to," read one of the complaints on the website. A YouTube account in the name of Nasime Sabz was deleted on Tuesday evening, Reuters reported. YouTube spokeswoman Jessica Mason could not immediately be reached for comment on the identification by media. The local police have not released the name or any other details of the culprit who shot herself after wounding four people no known connection to terrorism was established. A leading American media house, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, said the suspect was 35 to 40 years old and lived in Southern California. Last month, YouTube announced it would ban content promoting the sale of guns and gun accessories, as well as videos that teach how to make guns. Female mass shooters are rare. A recent Washington Post analysis shows only three out of 150 US shootings with more than four victims since 1966 were done by women. In 2015, a husband and wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California. (With inputs from Reuters)

Woman attacker had complaints about YouTube, lived in South California: Reports

Putting an end to the reports of another paper leak, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday said that the Class 12 Hindi (Elective) question paper was not leaked.

The CBSE termed the alleged leaked paper that is doing the rounds on social media as 'fake'.

"A fake question paper of Class 12- Hindi (Elective) is being circulated on Social Media platforms like Whatsapp, YouTube etc, it is not the real one," the CBSE said in a statement.

The statement comes hours after students protested outside the CBSE office in New Delhi, claiming that the Hindi paper was also leaked.

The Hindi exam is scheduled to be held on April 2.

Meanwhile, on March 30, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry announced that the re-examination for the Economics paper for Class 12 CBSE students would be held on 25 April and the Class 10 Maths paper, if required, would be conducted only for Delhi-NCR and Haryana in July.

Two cases have been registered and a Special Investigation team by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police has been formed to investigate the paper leaks.

The papers of Class 12 Economics, held on March 26, and Class 10 Maths, held on March 28, were leaked on social media hours before the examination.&nbsp;

Putting an end to the reports of another paper leak, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday said that the Class 12 Hindi (Elective) question paper was not leaked

Putting an end to the reports of another paper leak, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday said that the Class 12 Hindi (Elective) question paper was not leaked. The CBSE termed the alleged leaked paper that is doing the rounds on social media as 'fake'. "A fake question paper of Class 12- Hindi (Elective) is being circulated on Social Media platforms like Whatsapp, YouTube etc, it is not the real one," the CBSE said in a statement. The statement comes hours after students protested outside the CBSE office in New Delhi, claiming that the Hindi paper was also leaked. The Hindi exam is scheduled to be held on April 2. Meanwhile, on March 30, the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry announced that the re-examination for the Economics paper for Class 12 CBSE students would be held on 25 April and the Class 10 Maths paper, if required, would be conducted only for Delhi-NCR and Haryana in July. Two cases have been registered and a Special Investigation team by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police has been formed to investigate the paper leaks. The papers of Class 12 Economics, held on March 26, and Class 10 Maths, held on March 28, were leaked on social media hours before the examination.

CBSE quashes Class 12 Hindi paper leak claims

Days after Economics and Maths paper leaks rocked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination, a whistleblower has come forward with the claims that Political Science paper was also made public.

The Economics question paper of class XII and Maths question paper of class X were leaked on social media hours before the examination.

The Economics exam was held on March 26 and Maths on March 28.

Talking to ANI on the condition of anonymity, the man said, "I am 100 per cent sure that Political Science question paper was also leaked.

He had contacted the person through YouTube who was leaking the paper and informed the CBSE about the paper leak on March 17 but no action was taken.

"I had managed to contact the person leaking the paper through YouTube. I alerted CBSE, Prime Minister and police on March 17, but no action was taken," the whistleblower said.

This whistleblower has come forward but the Delhi Police has widened the search for another whistleblower in the CBSE paper leaks case, who, on three occasions, alerted the education board about the leaks.

The whistleblower, according to the police, sent a fax message on March 23 to the CBSE and alleged that a coaching centre was involved in a paper leak.

The concerned person then again on March 26 sent a courier to the Rouse Avenue office of the CBSE.

In the courier, answers of the Class XII Economics question paper were written on four pages.

Apart from it, mobile numbers of four persons were also mentioned who allegedly received these question papers on the WhatsApp groups.

On March 28, the CBSE chairperson received an email at 1:39 am with an attachment of 12 pages in which questions and answers of class X were written.

The mail also appealed to the CBSE to cancel the exams.

However, the examination board did not cancel the exams.

The First Information Report (FIR) was lodged in this regard on March 28 evening.

Till now, the police have come to know that the CBSE question papers were leaked on 10 WhatsApp groups.

The Economics question paper of class XII and Maths question paper of class X were leaked on social media hours before the examination

Days after Economics and Maths paper leaks rocked the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examination, a whistleblower has come forward with the claims that Political Science paper was also made public. The Economics question paper of class XII and Maths question paper of class X were leaked on social media hours before the examination. The Economics exam was held on March 26 and Maths on March 28. Talking to ANI on the condition of anonymity, the man said, "I am 100 per cent sure that Political Science question paper was also leaked. He had contacted the person through YouTube who was leaking the paper and informed the CBSE about the paper leak on March 17 but no action was taken. "I had managed to contact the person leaking the paper through YouTube. I alerted CBSE, Prime Minister and police on March 17, but no action was taken," the whistleblower said. This whistleblower has come forward but the Delhi Police has widened the search for another whistleblower in the CBSE paper leaks case, who, on three occasions, alerted the education board about the leaks. The whistleblower, according to the police, sent a fax message on March 23 to the CBSE and alleged that a coaching centre was involved in a paper leak. The concerned person then again on March 26 sent a courier to the Rouse Avenue office of the CBSE. In the courier, answers of the Class XII Economics question paper were written on four pages. Apart from it, mobile numbers of four persons were also mentioned who allegedly received these question papers on the WhatsApp groups. On March 28, the CBSE chairperson received an email at 1:39 am with an attachment of 12 pages in which questions and answers of class X were written. The mail also appealed to the CBSE to cancel the exams. However, the examination board did not cancel the exams. The First Information Report (FIR) was lodged in this regard on March 28 evening. Till now, the police have come to know that the CBSE question papers were leaked on 10 WhatsApp groups.

CBSE Political Science paper was also leaked, says a whistleblower

By&nbspEllis Cashmore*

A number of Unidentified Flying Objects have landed around the world. What are their intentions? To destroy us? To bring peace on earth? Or just observe us earthlings and our perplexing little maneuvers? Do they come in peace or war? It’s impossible to know at the moment because they just sit there, day after day, week after week, without indicating whether they are just tourists or permanent residents.

North Korea, we understand, has already decided and issued a stark warning it is priming its nuclear reactors. The UFOs communicate something to us, but it’s incoherent. The grammar is unintelligible, so we’re not sure what to do. We could take our time in trying to translate the message and figure out what the UFOs’ inhabitants want (if indeed they want anything) and what they have to offer. After all, they could bring unimaginable benefits. But we’ll need time to try to arrange meetings and ponder the possibilities. Or we could simply open fire and try to bomb them out of existence.

As with this outlandish imaginary presence, there really isn’t a way we know for sure whether social media are a good or a bad thing. All we know for certain is that it’s arrived and shows no signs of disappearing. Like the make-believe UFOs, social media occupy a great, great deal of our attention, and after an initial period of doubt in the early 2000s (Facebook was launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006), they have become permanent fixtures.

Doom and Foreboding&nbsp

And yet, we still haven’t made up our minds about whether they are dangerous (like the invaders in HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds), or beneficial (like the benevolent Vulcans from Star Trek), or whether they’ll deliver on a utopian promise but take in return our identities and culture (as did the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End).

Traditional media are full of doom, foreboding and warnings of the baneful effects of using social media. If scholars, researchers, politicians and sundry self-appointed experts are to be believed, we have a perfect nightmare of mental-health problems, addictions as debilitating as many drug dependencies and “separation anxieties” if we are parted from a screen device for just an hour.

The media, for the most part, accept these warnings uncritically. Consider the following selection of headlines: “The under-5s glued to screens for four hours each day” (The Daily Mail) “Electroshock Therapy for Internet Users?” (The New York Times) “How to stop checking your smartphone in the middle of the night” (The Telegraph) “We now spend 1.3 years of our lives choosing what to watch” (ShortList) “Fraudster addicted to TV SHOPPING stole £370,000 from her employer” (Coventry Telegraph) “Video game addiction ‘contributes to depression and anxiety’” (i) and “Facebook, Twitter and Google have become a ‘recruiting platform for terrorism'” (The Telegraph).

Collectively, they provide a prodigious inventory of conditions, some mental, others physical, all undesirable. Much of the research on which these warnings is conducted by psychologists, neuroscientists and health researchers. Few seem interested in the social, cultural or historical contexts in which social media use takes place, or the perspectives of the people who engage in the activity. As such, they present the view of experts, not users and usually the human costs, rather than the cultural benefits, such as the #MeToo and #enough movements.

The perplexing paradox of social media is that it appears to turn its enthusiastic devotees into alien abductees who are wholeheartedly complicit in their own abduction. So, when an august body such as the United Nations pronounces that that social media has had a “determining role” in anti-Rohingya Muslim violence in Myanmar, and “substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict,” it prompts a questions about the influence of social media — in particular Facebook — on its users.&nbsp

Facebook itself is presumably convinced enough to remove the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders from its platform, explaining that the decision to remove the pages was made after Britain First had ignored a final warning about the posting of material that broke its community standards.

Cyber Consciousness 

While this chimes with common-sense ideas of decency and moral rectitude, it’s uncomfortably out of sync with the freedom of information ethos that characterized not just Facebook but all social media in their growth. The spirit of social media, as manifested in its users’ aspirations and attitudes, was to share information openly and with impunity and without any attempt to prevent certain ideas, memories, thoughts or any other element of culture that could be passed on, copied and spread — memes — emerging into the cyber-consciousness.

No wonder users laugh at scaremongering media that routinely issue caveats about the proliferation of fake news. They mistrust all news equally, whatever its provenance. Far from being the credulous, wide-eyed ingénues they are often mistaken to be, Screenagers are savvy, discerning and cute enough to know the difference between hokum and actuality. They don’t need a working knowledge of Foucault (though many have that too) to realize that what passes as truth is made possible by the discourse that commissions it rather than its relationship to fact.

What we’re witnessing, though probably without knowing it, is a slow dismantling of one generation’s confidence in established sources of information and its replacement with a kind of all-purpose skepticism. No wonder people despair. “You have to believe something, or someone!” they’d insist. But Screenagers have been reared in a wonderful world of seemingly unlimited information theirs is a holistic approach to knowledge — they believe that all things, like all people, are interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.

“How do you define objective truth?” is not a question to ask a Screenager. “Says who?” or “What’s the source?” or “Who stands to gain if we believe it?” are nearer the mark. I write as a co-researcher on an international online project in which the responses of 2,000 Screenagers (you’ll have gathered this is the term we use to describe the current generation of smartphone-tablet-computer-users) were solicited on a range of subjects, from politics to personal health, and how these are being reshaped by screen devices. The results will be published later this year as Screen Society, the title reflecting the cultural transformation that’s taken place over the past decade.

At the moment, we humans are still apprehensive, as we would be if those UFOs had taken up residence and not revealed their intentions. We went through all this in the 1950s and early 1960s when televisions multiplied like those Tribbles in the Star Trek universe. Shortened attention spans, telly-addiction and family breakups were some of the predicted maladies these have all resurfaced, of course. Neither we nor the society we make up will unspool as a result of social media. Like every other piece of technology it has no immanent qualities. So, it is pointless trying to determine whether it’s good or evil. Social media are best judged on their potential, which is, as everyone now realizes, colossal.

No wonder people are concerned: These media are changing us, our children and practically every conceivable aspect of society just as profoundly as the steam engine did in the 18th century.&nbsp&nbsp

&nbsp

*Ellis Cashmore is visiting professor of sociology at Aston University and has previously worked at the universities of Hong Kong and Tampa.

(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

Social media are changing us, our children and practically every conceivable aspect of society just as profoundly as the steam engine did in the 18th century.

By&nbspEllis Cashmore* A number of Unidentified Flying Objects have landed around the world. What are their intentions? To destroy us? To bring peace on earth? Or just observe us earthlings and our perplexing little maneuvers? Do they come in peace or war? It’s impossible to know at the moment because they just sit there, day after day, week after week, without indicating whether they are just tourists or permanent residents. North Korea, we understand, has already decided and issued a stark warning it is priming its nuclear reactors. The UFOs communicate something to us, but it’s incoherent. The grammar is unintelligible, so we’re not sure what to do. We could take our time in trying to translate the message and figure out what the UFOs’ inhabitants want (if indeed they want anything) and what they have to offer. After all, they could bring unimaginable benefits. But we’ll need time to try to arrange meetings and ponder the possibilities. Or we could simply open fire and try to bomb them out of existence. As with this outlandish imaginary presence, there really isn’t a way we know for sure whether social media are a good or a bad thing. All we know for certain is that it’s arrived and shows no signs of disappearing. Like the make-believe UFOs, social media occupy a great, great deal of our attention, and after an initial period of doubt in the early 2000s (Facebook was launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006), they have become permanent fixtures. Doom and Foreboding And yet, we still haven’t made up our minds about whether they are dangerous (like the invaders in HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds), or beneficial (like the benevolent Vulcans from Star Trek), or whether they’ll deliver on a utopian promise but take in return our identities and culture (as did the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End). Traditional media are full of doom, foreboding and warnings of the baneful effects of using social media. If scholars, researchers, politicians and sundry self-appointed experts are to be believed, we have a perfect nightmare of mental-health problems, addictions as debilitating as many drug dependencies and “separation anxieties” if we are parted from a screen device for just an hour. The media, for the most part, accept these warnings uncritically. Consider the following selection of headlines: “The under-5s glued to screens for four hours each day” (The Daily Mail) “Electroshock Therapy for Internet Users?” (The New York Times) “How to stop checking your smartphone in the middle of the night” (The Telegraph) “We now spend 1.3 years of our lives choosing what to watch” (ShortList) “Fraudster addicted to TV SHOPPING stole £370,000 from her employer” (Coventry Telegraph) “Video game addiction ‘contributes to depression and anxiety’” (i) and “Facebook, Twitter and Google have become a ‘recruiting platform for terrorism'” (The Telegraph). Collectively, they provide a prodigious inventory of conditions, some mental, others physical, all undesirable. Much of the research on which these warnings is conducted by psychologists, neuroscientists and health researchers. Few seem interested in the social, cultural or historical contexts in which social media use takes place, or the perspectives of the people who engage in the activity. As such, they present the view of experts, not users and usually the human costs, rather than the cultural benefits, such as the #MeToo and #enough movements. The perplexing paradox of social media is that it appears to turn its enthusiastic devotees into alien abductees who are wholeheartedly complicit in their own abduction. So, when an august body such as the United Nations pronounces that that social media has had a “determining role” in anti-Rohingya Muslim violence in Myanmar, and “substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict,” it prompts a questions about the influence of social media — in particular Facebook — on its users. Facebook itself is presumably convinced enough to remove the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders from its platform, explaining that the decision to remove the pages was made after Britain First had ignored a final warning about the posting of material that broke its community standards. Cyber Consciousness While this chimes with common-sense ideas of decency and moral rectitude, it’s uncomfortably out of sync with the freedom of information ethos that characterized not just Facebook but all social media in their growth. The spirit of social media, as manifested in its users’ aspirations and attitudes, was to share information openly and with impunity and without any attempt to prevent certain ideas, memories, thoughts or any other element of culture that could be passed on, copied and spread — memes — emerging into the cyber-consciousness. No wonder users laugh at scaremongering media that routinely issue caveats about the proliferation of fake news. They mistrust all news equally, whatever its provenance. Far from being the credulous, wide-eyed ingénues they are often mistaken to be, Screenagers are savvy, discerning and cute enough to know the difference between hokum and actuality. They don’t need a working knowledge of Foucault (though many have that too) to realize that what passes as truth is made possible by the discourse that commissions it rather than its relationship to fact. What we’re witnessing, though probably without knowing it, is a slow dismantling of one generation’s confidence in established sources of information and its replacement with a kind of all-purpose skepticism. No wonder people despair. “You have to believe something, or someone!” they’d insist. But Screenagers have been reared in a wonderful world of seemingly unlimited information theirs is a holistic approach to knowledge — they believe that all things, like all people, are interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole. “How do you define objective truth?” is not a question to ask a Screenager. “Says who?” or “What’s the source?” or “Who stands to gain if we believe it?” are nearer the mark. I write as a co-researcher on an international online project in which the responses of 2,000 Screenagers (you’ll have gathered this is the term we use to describe the current generation of smartphone-tablet-computer-users) were solicited on a range of subjects, from politics to personal health, and how these are being reshaped by screen devices. The results will be published later this year as Screen Society, the title reflecting the cultural transformation that’s taken place over the past decade. At the moment, we humans are still apprehensive, as we would be if those UFOs had taken up residence and not revealed their intentions. We went through all this in the 1950s and early 1960s when televisions multiplied like those Tribbles in the Star Trek universe. Shortened attention spans, telly-addiction and family breakups were some of the predicted maladies these have all resurfaced, of course. Neither we nor the society we make up will unspool as a result of social media. Like every other piece of technology it has no immanent qualities. So, it is pointless trying to determine whether it’s good or evil. Social media are best judged on their potential, which is, as everyone now realizes, colossal. No wonder people are concerned: These media are changing us, our children and practically every conceivable aspect of society just as profoundly as the steam engine did in the 18th century. *Ellis Cashmore is visiting professor of sociology at Aston University and has previously worked at the universities of Hong Kong and Tampa. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

Opinion: Social media occupy a great deal of our attention

By&nbsp;Ellis Cashmore*

A number of Unidentified Flying Objects have landed around the world. What are their intentions? To destroy us? To bring peace on earth? Or just observe us earthlings and our perplexing little maneuvers? Do they come in peace or war? It&rsquo;s impossible to know at the moment because they just sit there, day after day, week after week, without indicating whether they are just tourists or permanent residents.

North Korea, we understand, has already decided and issued a stark warning; it is priming its nuclear reactors. The UFOs communicate something to us, but it&rsquo;s incoherent. The grammar is unintelligible, so we&rsquo;re not sure what to do. We could take our time in trying to translate the message and figure out what the UFOs&rsquo; inhabitants want (if indeed they want anything) and what they have to offer. After all, they could bring unimaginable benefits. But we&rsquo;ll need time to try to arrange meetings and ponder the possibilities. Or we could simply open fire and try to bomb them out of existence.

As with this outlandish imaginary presence, there really isn&rsquo;t a way we know for sure whether social media are a good or a bad thing. All we know for certain is that it&rsquo;s arrived and shows no signs of disappearing. Like the make-believe UFOs, social media occupy a great, great deal of our attention, and after an initial period of doubt in the early 2000s (Facebook was launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006), they have become permanent fixtures.

Doom and Foreboding&nbsp;

And yet, we still haven&rsquo;t made up our minds about whether they are dangerous (like the invaders in HG Wells&rsquo; The War of the Worlds), or beneficial (like the benevolent Vulcans from Star Trek), or whether they&rsquo;ll deliver on a utopian promise but take in return our identities and culture (as did the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke&rsquo;s Childhood&rsquo;s End).

Traditional media are full of doom, foreboding and warnings of the baneful effects of using social media. If scholars, researchers, politicians and sundry self-appointed experts are to be believed, we have a perfect nightmare of mental-health problems, addictions as debilitating as many drug dependencies and &ldquo;separation anxieties&rdquo; if we are parted from a screen device for just an hour.

The media, for the most part, accept these warnings uncritically. Consider the following selection of headlines: &ldquo;The under-5s glued to screens for four hours each day&rdquo; (The Daily Mail); &ldquo;Electroshock Therapy for Internet Users?&rdquo; (The New York Times); &ldquo;How to stop checking your smartphone in the middle of the night&rdquo; (The Telegraph); &ldquo;We now spend 1.3 years of our lives choosing what to watch&rdquo; (ShortList); &ldquo;Fraudster addicted to TV SHOPPING stole &pound;370,000 from her employer&rdquo; (Coventry Telegraph); &ldquo;Video game addiction &lsquo;contributes to depression and anxiety&rsquo;&rdquo; (i); and &ldquo;Facebook, Twitter and Google have become a &lsquo;recruiting platform for terrorism&#39;&rdquo; (The Telegraph).

Collectively, they provide a prodigious inventory of conditions, some mental, others physical, all undesirable. Much of the research on which these warnings is conducted by psychologists, neuroscientists and health researchers. Few seem interested in the social, cultural or historical contexts in which social media use takes place, or the perspectives of the people who engage in the activity. As such, they present the view of experts, not users; and usually the human costs, rather than the cultural benefits, such as the #MeToo and #enough movements.

The perplexing paradox of social media is that it appears to turn its enthusiastic devotees into alien abductees who are wholeheartedly complicit in their own abduction. So, when an august body such as the United Nations pronounces that that social media has had a &ldquo;determining role&rdquo; in anti-Rohingya Muslim violence in Myanmar, and &ldquo;substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict,&rdquo; it prompts a questions about the influence of social media &mdash; in particular Facebook &mdash; on its users.&nbsp;

Facebook itself is presumably convinced enough to remove the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders from its platform, explaining that the decision to remove the pages was made after Britain First had ignored a final warning about the posting of material that broke its community standards.

Cyber Consciousness 

While this chimes with common-sense ideas of decency and moral rectitude, it&rsquo;s uncomfortably out of sync with the freedom of information ethos that characterized not just Facebook but all social media in their growth. The spirit of social media, as manifested in its users&rsquo; aspirations and attitudes, was to share information openly and with impunity and without any attempt to prevent certain ideas, memories, thoughts or any other element of culture that could be passed on, copied and spread &mdash; memes &mdash; emerging into the cyber-consciousness.

No wonder users laugh at scaremongering media that routinely issue caveats about the proliferation of fake news. They mistrust all news equally, whatever its provenance. Far from being the credulous, wide-eyed ing&eacute;nues they are often mistaken to be, Screenagers are savvy, discerning and cute enough to know the difference between hokum and actuality. They don&rsquo;t need a working knowledge of Foucault (though many have that too) to realize that what passes as truth is made possible by the discourse that commissions it rather than its relationship to fact.

What we&rsquo;re witnessing, though probably without knowing it, is a slow dismantling of one generation&rsquo;s confidence in established sources of information and its replacement with a kind of all-purpose skepticism. No wonder people despair. &ldquo;You have to believe something, or someone!&rdquo; they&rsquo;d insist. But Screenagers have been reared in a wonderful world of seemingly unlimited information; theirs is a holistic approach to knowledge &mdash; they believe that all things, like all people, are interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.

&ldquo;How do you define objective truth?&rdquo; is not a question to ask a Screenager. &ldquo;Says who?&rdquo; or &ldquo;What&rsquo;s the source?&rdquo; or &ldquo;Who stands to gain if we believe it?&rdquo; are nearer the mark. I write as a co-researcher on an international online project in which the responses of 2,000 Screenagers (you&rsquo;ll have gathered this is the term we use to describe the current generation of smartphone-tablet-computer-users) were solicited on a range of subjects, from politics to personal health, and how these are being reshaped by screen devices. The results will be published later this year as Screen Society, the title reflecting the cultural transformation that&rsquo;s taken place over the past decade.

At the moment, we humans are still apprehensive, as we would be if those UFOs had taken up residence and not revealed their intentions. We went through all this in the 1950s and early 1960s when televisions multiplied like those Tribbles in the Star Trek universe. Shortened attention spans, telly-addiction and family breakups were some of the predicted maladies; these have all resurfaced, of course. Neither we nor the society we make up will unspool as a result of social media. Like every other piece of technology it has no immanent qualities. So, it is pointless trying to determine whether it&rsquo;s good or evil. Social media are best judged on their potential, which is, as everyone now realizes, colossal.

No wonder people are concerned: These media are changing us, our children and practically every conceivable aspect of society just as profoundly as the steam engine did in the 18th century.&nbsp;&nbsp;

&nbsp;

*Ellis Cashmore is visiting professor of sociology at Aston University and has previously worked at the universities of Hong Kong and Tampa.

(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

By Ellis Cashmore* A number of Unidentified Flying Objects have landed around the world. What are their intentions? To destroy us? To bring peace on earth? Or just observe us earthlings and our perplexing little maneuvers? Do they come in peace or war? It’s impossible to know at the moment because they just sit there, day after day, week after week, without indicating whether they are just tourists or permanent residents. North Korea, we understand, has already decided and issued a stark warning; it is priming its nuclear reactors. The UFOs communicate something to us, but it’s incoherent. The grammar is unintelligible, so we’re not sure what to do. We could take our time in trying to translate the message and figure out what the UFOs’ inhabitants want (if indeed they want anything) and what they have to offer. After all, they could bring unimaginable benefits. But we’ll need time to try to arrange meetings and ponder the possibilities. Or we could simply open fire and try to bomb them out of existence. As with this outlandish imaginary presence, there really isn’t a way we know for sure whether social media are a good or a bad thing. All we know for certain is that it’s arrived and shows no signs of disappearing. Like the make-believe UFOs, social media occupy a great, great deal of our attention, and after an initial period of doubt in the early 2000s (Facebook was launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005 and Twitter in 2006), they have become permanent fixtures. Doom and Foreboding And yet, we still haven’t made up our minds about whether they are dangerous (like the invaders in HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds), or beneficial (like the benevolent Vulcans from Star Trek), or whether they’ll deliver on a utopian promise but take in return our identities and culture (as did the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End). Traditional media are full of doom, foreboding and warnings of the baneful effects of using social media. If scholars, researchers, politicians and sundry self-appointed experts are to be believed, we have a perfect nightmare of mental-health problems, addictions as debilitating as many drug dependencies and “separation anxieties” if we are parted from a screen device for just an hour. The media, for the most part, accept these warnings uncritically. Consider the following selection of headlines: “The under-5s glued to screens for four hours each day” (The Daily Mail); “Electroshock Therapy for Internet Users?” (The New York Times); “How to stop checking your smartphone in the middle of the night” (The Telegraph); “We now spend 1.3 years of our lives choosing what to watch” (ShortList); “Fraudster addicted to TV SHOPPING stole £370,000 from her employer” (Coventry Telegraph); “Video game addiction ‘contributes to depression and anxiety’” (i); and “Facebook, Twitter and Google have become a ‘recruiting platform for terrorism'” (The Telegraph). Collectively, they provide a prodigious inventory of conditions, some mental, others physical, all undesirable. Much of the research on which these warnings is conducted by psychologists, neuroscientists and health researchers. Few seem interested in the social, cultural or historical contexts in which social media use takes place, or the perspectives of the people who engage in the activity. As such, they present the view of experts, not users; and usually the human costs, rather than the cultural benefits, such as the #MeToo and #enough movements. The perplexing paradox of social media is that it appears to turn its enthusiastic devotees into alien abductees who are wholeheartedly complicit in their own abduction. So, when an august body such as the United Nations pronounces that that social media has had a “determining role” in anti-Rohingya Muslim violence in Myanmar, and “substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict,” it prompts a questions about the influence of social media — in particular Facebook — on its users. Facebook itself is presumably convinced enough to remove the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders from its platform, explaining that the decision to remove the pages was made after Britain First had ignored a final warning about the posting of material that broke its community standards. Cyber Consciousness While this chimes with common-sense ideas of decency and moral rectitude, it’s uncomfortably out of sync with the freedom of information ethos that characterized not just Facebook but all social media in their growth. The spirit of social media, as manifested in its users’ aspirations and attitudes, was to share information openly and with impunity and without any attempt to prevent certain ideas, memories, thoughts or any other element of culture that could be passed on, copied and spread — memes — emerging into the cyber-consciousness. No wonder users laugh at scaremongering media that routinely issue caveats about the proliferation of fake news. They mistrust all news equally, whatever its provenance. Far from being the credulous, wide-eyed ingénues they are often mistaken to be, Screenagers are savvy, discerning and cute enough to know the difference between hokum and actuality. They don’t need a working knowledge of Foucault (though many have that too) to realize that what passes as truth is made possible by the discourse that commissions it rather than its relationship to fact. What we’re witnessing, though probably without knowing it, is a slow dismantling of one generation’s confidence in established sources of information and its replacement with a kind of all-purpose skepticism. No wonder people despair. “You have to believe something, or someone!” they’d insist. But Screenagers have been reared in a wonderful world of seemingly unlimited information; theirs is a holistic approach to knowledge — they believe that all things, like all people, are interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole. “How do you define objective truth?” is not a question to ask a Screenager. “Says who?” or “What’s the source?” or “Who stands to gain if we believe it?” are nearer the mark. I write as a co-researcher on an international online project in which the responses of 2,000 Screenagers (you’ll have gathered this is the term we use to describe the current generation of smartphone-tablet-computer-users) were solicited on a range of subjects, from politics to personal health, and how these are being reshaped by screen devices. The results will be published later this year as Screen Society, the title reflecting the cultural transformation that’s taken place over the past decade. At the moment, we humans are still apprehensive, as we would be if those UFOs had taken up residence and not revealed their intentions. We went through all this in the 1950s and early 1960s when televisions multiplied like those Tribbles in the Star Trek universe. Shortened attention spans, telly-addiction and family breakups were some of the predicted maladies; these have all resurfaced, of course. Neither we nor the society we make up will unspool as a result of social media. Like every other piece of technology it has no immanent qualities. So, it is pointless trying to determine whether it’s good or evil. Social media are best judged on their potential, which is, as everyone now realizes, colossal. No wonder people are concerned: These media are changing us, our children and practically every conceivable aspect of society just as profoundly as the steam engine did in the 18th century. *Ellis Cashmore is visiting professor of sociology at Aston University and has previously worked at the universities of Hong Kong and Tampa. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

&nbsp; 
Rabindra Sangeet and the soulful songs of Bhupen Hazarika were an integral part of my growing up years. I remember waking up to &lsquo;Ai akasha amar mukti&rsquo; (translation: I shall be liberated in the sky, in glorious luster) sung by my grandfather as he lovingly watered the plants in our garden. I have heard my father croon revolutionary songs like &lsquo;Ora amader gaan gaite dei na, paul robson&rsquo; (translation: they don&rsquo;t let us raise our voice, my brother Paul Robson). &nbsp;Hazarika&rsquo;s &lsquo;O Ganga boicho kano&rsquo; (translation: stretched on two shores where people live in crores, you hear their cries, still you are mum and oblivious. O the Ganges! Ganges, why do you flow in silence?) was my personal favourite. By the time I was 10, I had learned this song by heart and would consider it a feat achieved if ever my grandfather complimented me for singing it well.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
I have been in love with regional music or song of the soil as my grandfather liked to call it for as long as I can remember. Only, today I find it difficult to sniff out the very soulful songs amidst the noise that surrounds us in the guise of commercial songs churned out by the movie industries in dozens.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
Today&rsquo;s commercial movie songs are plagued by sameness. It is this sameness that has rendered these songs boring. Except for some rare, hard to come by songs, most of them appear to be copy paste jobs with next to none change in lyrics, pitch, note and scale. There is nothing new. Nothing fresh. 
&nbsp; 
Original compositions that often borrow generously from folk music step in here to add refreshment to boredom. These compositions are not conceived keeping in mind a particular movie or music video. But occasionally some of them make inroads into cinema given the enriching experience they provide to listeners. They are instrumental in attracting listeners and holding their attention, thereby generating enthusiasm for the movie among moviegoers.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
A case in point could be Ritam Sen&rsquo;s winning of the Filmfare East 2018 for penning down the song &quot;Tomake Bujhina Priyo&quot; (translation: I don&rsquo;t understand you, dear). Interestingly the song was never meant to be a part of cinema.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
&ldquo;The song was written back in 2012-2013. There was really no commercial motive&rdquo;, says Mr. Sen. The song was conceived by a group of youngsters who back then had no idea that it would go on to become such a big hit. Prasen Mukherjee added his music to the brilliantly penned words and together the team created a song which would eventually be picked up by Anindya Chatterjee for his Bengali movie Projapoti Biskut. 
&nbsp; 
The song, viral on YouTube and social media went to win the Filmfare East in all major music categories like - Best Music Album, Best Lyrics and Best Playback Singer (Female). Needless to say, the song which created a strong buzz among cine lovers worked well for the movie&rsquo;s business. 
Movie makers, music directors have time and again infused the regional music flavour in the commercial movies. Regional music is beautiful because despite being significantly different from popular and more followed compositions of a period, they manage to make pan India listeners croon to the renditions.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
Remember &#39;Nimbooda&#39; from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and &#39;Bhumbro&#39; from Mission Kashmir? The audience has always enjoyed such regional music influencing Bollywood songs. The fact that these songs went on to become such chartbusters are proof of the popularity of regional music. &nbsp;Their popularity is also reflected in the rave reviews of the music pundits. 
&nbsp; 
We still dance to &lsquo;Beedi Jalai Le&rsquo; from Vishal Bhardwaj&rsquo;s Omkara. Wedding celebrations are incomplete without grooving to late Sri Devi&rsquo;s &#39;Navrai Majhi&#39; from English Vinglish. &lsquo;Shubharambh&rsquo; from Kai Po Che, &lsquo;Monta Re&rsquo; from &ndash; Lootera have stayed with us long after they first made their way to our hearts.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
These songs celebrate life. They aptly describe myriad emotions like joys of being in love and the sorrow of separation; they capture the beauty of life and death, the ultimate truth. They are raw and throbbing with passion. The compositions are relatable because they carry in them the smell of the soil.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
Mr&quot;. Sen feels &ldquo;folk and original music are always more honest than the commercial cinema&#39;s requirement directed forced lyrics. And because such music is honest, they are more soul-stirring.&rdquo; 
&nbsp; 
Indeed! 
&nbsp; 
To pen such songs is an art. To lend a voice to such beautiful compositions is an art too. 
&nbsp; 
Where lies the beauty of these songs, one might wonder. For me, it is all about how these songs make me feel connected, nostalgic almost. It is because these songs are the lyrical representations of myriad Indian cultures woven together by soul touching notes.&nbsp; 
&nbsp; 
Regional music upholds India&#39;s rich diversity in the most soulful manner. Each region has its own style and it is this style that acts as a differentiator. &nbsp;There are a plethora of songs for occasions such as weddings, engagements, and births and of planting and harvests. &nbsp;These are songs of hopes, melancholy, fears, and aspirations. They are real, they are raw. They help us reconnect with our inner self, the lost self, the self that was once fascinated by grandmother&#39;s tales and now feeds on nostalgia to relive forgotten times. 
&nbsp; 
Unfortunately, however, there are budget constraints that hinder nurturing both regional music and original compositions. &nbsp;Sometimes there is not enough exposure. Not all brilliantly composed and sung songs manage to make their way to the YouTube. Even if they do, they fail to become internet sensations because they lack the sheen and gloss of music videos that concentrate less on music and more on the look of their featured models. 
&nbsp; 
Mr. Sen is hopeful, believes &ldquo;the scene is getting better with more YouTube channels, creating a platform for original music&rdquo;. 
&nbsp; 
Music transcends all boundaries. That is why regional music must live on because nothing glorifies India&rsquo;s homogenous cultural identity like they do. 
&nbsp; 
The showbiz industry must include more folk music in mainstream cinema. As music lovers, we would love nothing better.&nbsp;

&nbsp;

(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)&nbsp;

Regional music must live on because nothing glorifies India’s homogenous cultural identity like they do. However, there are budget constraints that hinder nurturing regional music.

Rabindra Sangeet and the soulful songs of Bhupen Hazarika were an integral part of my growing up years. I remember waking up to ‘Ai akasha amar mukti’ (translation: I shall be liberated in the sky, in glorious luster) sung by my grandfather as he lovingly watered the plants in our garden. I have heard my father croon revolutionary songs like ‘Ora amader gaan gaite dei na, paul robson’ (translation: they don’t let us raise our voice, my brother Paul Robson). Hazarika’s ‘O Ganga boicho kano’ (translation: stretched on two shores where people live in crores, you hear their cries, still you are mum and oblivious. O the Ganges! Ganges, why do you flow in silence?) was my personal favourite. By the time I was 10, I had learned this song by heart and would consider it a feat achieved if ever my grandfather complimented me for singing it well. I have been in love with regional music or song of the soil as my grandfather liked to call it for as long as I can remember. Only, today I find it difficult to sniff out the very soulful songs amidst the noise that surrounds us in the guise of commercial songs churned out by the movie industries in dozens. Today’s commercial movie songs are plagued by sameness. It is this sameness that has rendered these songs boring. Except for some rare, hard to come by songs, most of them appear to be copy paste jobs with next to none change in lyrics, pitch, note and scale. There is nothing new. Nothing fresh. Original compositions that often borrow generously from folk music step in here to add refreshment to boredom. These compositions are not conceived keeping in mind a particular movie or music video. But occasionally some of them make inroads into cinema given the enriching experience they provide to listeners. They are instrumental in attracting listeners and holding their attention, thereby generating enthusiasm for the movie among moviegoers. A case in point could be Ritam Sen’s winning of the Filmfare East 2018 for penning down the song "Tomake Bujhina Priyo" (translation: I don’t understand you, dear). Interestingly the song was never meant to be a part of cinema. “The song was written back in 2012-2013. There was really no commercial motive”, says Mr. Sen. The song was conceived by a group of youngsters who back then had no idea that it would go on to become such a big hit. Prasen Mukherjee added his music to the brilliantly penned words and together the team created a song which would eventually be picked up by Anindya Chatterjee for his Bengali movie Projapoti Biskut. The song, viral on YouTube and social media went to win the Filmfare East in all major music categories like - Best Music Album, Best Lyrics and Best Playback Singer (Female). Needless to say, the song which created a strong buzz among cine lovers worked well for the movie’s business. Movie makers, music directors have time and again infused the regional music flavour in the commercial movies. Regional music is beautiful because despite being significantly different from popular and more followed compositions of a period, they manage to make pan India listeners croon to the renditions. Remember 'Nimbooda' from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and 'Bhumbro' from Mission Kashmir? The audience has always enjoyed such regional music influencing Bollywood songs. The fact that these songs went on to become such chartbusters are proof of the popularity of regional music. Their popularity is also reflected in the rave reviews of the music pundits. We still dance to ‘Beedi Jalai Le’ from Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara. Wedding celebrations are incomplete without grooving to late Sri Devi’s 'Navrai Majhi' from English Vinglish. ‘Shubharambh’ from Kai Po Che, ‘Monta Re’ from – Lootera have stayed with us long after they first made their way to our hearts. These songs celebrate life. They aptly describe myriad emotions like joys of being in love and the sorrow of separation; they capture the beauty of life and death, the ultimate truth. They are raw and throbbing with passion. The compositions are relatable because they carry in them the smell of the soil. Mr". Sen feels “folk and original music are always more honest than the commercial cinema's requirement directed forced lyrics. And because such music is honest, they are more soul-stirring.” Indeed! To pen such songs is an art. To lend a voice to such beautiful compositions is an art too. Where lies the beauty of these songs, one might wonder. For me, it is all about how these songs make me feel connected, nostalgic almost. It is because these songs are the lyrical representations of myriad Indian cultures woven together by soul touching notes. Regional music upholds India's rich diversity in the most soulful manner. Each region has its own style and it is this style that acts as a differentiator. There are a plethora of songs for occasions such as weddings, engagements, and births and of planting and harvests. These are songs of hopes, melancholy, fears, and aspirations. They are real, they are raw. They help us reconnect with our inner self, the lost self, the self that was once fascinated by grandmother's tales and now feeds on nostalgia to relive forgotten times. Unfortunately, however, there are budget constraints that hinder nurturing both regional music and original compositions. Sometimes there is not enough exposure. Not all brilliantly composed and sung songs manage to make their way to the YouTube. Even if they do, they fail to become internet sensations because they lack the sheen and gloss of music videos that concentrate less on music and more on the look of their featured models. Mr. Sen is hopeful, believes “the scene is getting better with more YouTube channels, creating a platform for original music”. Music transcends all boundaries. That is why regional music must live on because nothing glorifies India’s homogenous cultural identity like they do. The showbiz industry must include more folk music in mainstream cinema. As music lovers, we would love nothing better. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

Opinion: Long live India's folk-song love affair

A video is making rounds on social media showing a robot solving Rubik&#39;s cube puzzle in just 38 seconds, beating the earlier world record of 0.637.

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In 2016, a world record was made by&nbsp;chipmaker Infineon whose&#39;s robot solved the puzzle in&nbsp;0.637.

The video was uploaded on YouTube on Wednesday by Ben Katz in collaboration with Jared Di Carlo.

In the blog post, Jared Di Carlo&nbsp;wrote &quot;recently, Ben Katz and I collaborated on a Rubik&#39;s Cube solving robot to try to beat the world record time of 0.637 seconds, set by some engineers at Infineon. &nbsp;We noticed that all of the fast Rubik&#39;s Cube solvers were using stepper motors, and thought that we could do better if we used better motors.&quot;

He further explains &#39;&#39;our solve time of 0.38 seconds includes acquiring the image from the webcam, detecting colours, finding a solution, and actually rotating the faces of the cube. &nbsp;In the video, the machine is solving a &#39;YJ Yulong Smooth Stickerless Speed Cube Puzzle&#39;, available on Amazon for $4.55. &nbsp;We used the cheapest cube we could find on Amazon Prime because we thought we&#39;d end up destroying many of them, but somehow ended up only going through 4 cubes and 100&#39;s of solves.&quot;

The robot is a set of 6 Kollmorgen ServoDisc motor U9- series motors and 2 PlayStation Eye cameras.

The video shows an unsolved Rubik&#39;s cube which gets solved in just 21 moves.

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In 2016 a world record was made by chipmaker Infineon whose's robot solved the puzzle in 0.637

A video is making rounds on social media showing a robot solving Rubik's cube puzzle in just 38 seconds, beating the earlier world record of 0.637. × In 2016, a world record was made by chipmaker Infineon whose's robot solved the puzzle in 0.637. The video was uploaded on YouTube on Wednesday by Ben Katz in collaboration with Jared Di Carlo. In the blog post, Jared Di Carlo wrote "recently, Ben Katz and I collaborated on a Rubik's Cube solving robot to try to beat the world record time of 0.637 seconds, set by some engineers at Infineon. We noticed that all of the fast Rubik's Cube solvers were using stepper motors, and thought that we could do better if we used better motors." He further explains ''our solve time of 0.38 seconds includes acquiring the image from the webcam, detecting colours, finding a solution, and actually rotating the faces of the cube. In the video, the machine is solving a 'YJ Yulong Smooth Stickerless Speed Cube Puzzle', available on Amazon for $4.55. We used the cheapest cube we could find on Amazon Prime because we thought we'd end up destroying many of them, but somehow ended up only going through 4 cubes and 100's of solves." The robot is a set of 6 Kollmorgen ServoDisc motor U9- series motors and 2 PlayStation Eye cameras. The video shows an unsolved Rubik's cube which gets solved in just 21 moves.

Watch: Robot solves Rubik's cube in just .38 seconds

One of Australia&#39;s top police officers has quit after being linked to crude racist, sexist and pornographic online posts that his boss described Tuesday as &quot;shocking&quot;.

Victoria state&#39;s Assistant Commissioner Brett Guerin, who was also an ethics chief, resigned late Monday after an explosive report in Melbourne&#39;s The Age newspaper detailing numerous YouTube posts written under his alleged online pseudonym &quot;Vernon Demerest&quot;.

&quot;It is behaviour that is completely and utterly unacceptable at Victoria Police,&quot; Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton told reporters.

&quot;There are a lot of shocked people ... It`s completely out of character with what we know the assistant commissioner has been doing.&quot;

&quot;Demerest&quot;, the name of the character played by actor Dean Martin in the 1970 movie &quot;Airport&quot;, made racist remarks that included references to &quot;third world dullards&quot; and &quot;Indian and Pakistani peasant (s)&quot;, the newspaper reported.

Some alleged posts by Guerin, including for videos about Somali pirates and of Argentina losing to the Netherlands in the 1998 World Cup, are too racially offensive to publish.

&quot;Demerest&quot; also wrote sexually explicit comments about Australian sporting matches, the Age said.

Guerin was already on suspension and being investigated by the police&#39;s anti-corruption watchdog after revelations last week that he made vulgar sexual remarks on a website about a former female police commissioner and a police union chief.

He admitted to a Melbourne radio station he had written the online comments under the same fake name, and that he was ashamed about his mother and daughters reading them.

&quot;The language I used ... was completely inappropriate, embarrassing and I can understand people saying &#39;what the hell is this bloke doing?&#39;,&quot; Guerin, a policeman for more than four decades, told commercial station 3AW station last week.

&quot;The reason I did it under a fake name is clearly if I had gone in with my own name, it would have been associated with Victoria Police.&quot;

Ashton stressed that the scandal was not a reflection of the wider culture among his officers.

&quot;We will be talking to the emerging community, multicultural communities that we have been working with for a long time and making sure that they know it is not representative of the views of Victoria Police,&quot; he said.

'It is behaviour that is completely and utterly unacceptable at Victoria Police,' Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said

One of Australia's top police officers has quit after being linked to crude racist, sexist and pornographic online posts that his boss described Tuesday as "shocking". Victoria state's Assistant Commissioner Brett Guerin, who was also an ethics chief, resigned late Monday after an explosive report in Melbourne's The Age newspaper detailing numerous YouTube posts written under his alleged online pseudonym "Vernon Demerest". "It is behaviour that is completely and utterly unacceptable at Victoria Police," Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton told reporters. "There are a lot of shocked people ... It`s completely out of character with what we know the assistant commissioner has been doing." "Demerest", the name of the character played by actor Dean Martin in the 1970 movie "Airport", made racist remarks that included references to "third world dullards" and "Indian and Pakistani peasant (s)", the newspaper reported. Some alleged posts by Guerin, including for videos about Somali pirates and of Argentina losing to the Netherlands in the 1998 World Cup, are too racially offensive to publish. "Demerest" also wrote sexually explicit comments about Australian sporting matches, the Age said. Guerin was already on suspension and being investigated by the police's anti-corruption watchdog after revelations last week that he made vulgar sexual remarks on a website about a former female police commissioner and a police union chief. He admitted to a Melbourne radio station he had written the online comments under the same fake name, and that he was ashamed about his mother and daughters reading them. "The language I used ... was completely inappropriate, embarrassing and I can understand people saying 'what the hell is this bloke doing?'," Guerin, a policeman for more than four decades, told commercial station 3AW station last week. "The reason I did it under a fake name is clearly if I had gone in with my own name, it would have been associated with Victoria Police." Ashton stressed that the scandal was not a reflection of the wider culture among his officers. "We will be talking to the emerging community, multicultural communities that we have been working with for a long time and making sure that they know it is not representative of the views of Victoria Police," he said.

Top Australia cop quits over 'shocking' racist, sexist posts

US President Donald Trump on Friday visited a Florida hospital to offer comfort to those wounded in a mass school shooting after the FBI admitted it mishandled a tip about the troubled teen behind the massacre that left 17 dead.

The arrival of Trump and his wife Melania came at the end of a difficult day for the families of those killed in Wednesday&#39;s rampage at a high school in Parkland, Florida, who learned that the carnage could perhaps have been averted.

The FBI, the top US law enforcement agency, admitted it had received a chilling warning in January from a tipster who said the 19-year-old gunman, Nikolas Cruz, could be planning a mass shooting, but that agents failed to follow up.

At Broward Health North Hospital, where Trump met with survivors of the shooting, the president thanked the doctors, nurses and first responders for their &quot;incredible&quot; work, and described the carnage as &quot;very sad.&quot;&nbsp;

He and his wife were also expected to visit the Broward County sheriff&#39;s office &quot;to meet with the law enforcement officials whose bravery helped save lives,&quot; a White House official said.

The president&#39;s visit to Parkland -- an area about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Miami -- came amid growing anger among parents and students in the south Florida city over America&#39;s seeming unwillingness to toughen gun control laws.

&quot;My princess wasn&#39;t safe in that school,&quot; said Andrew Pollack, speaking at the funeral of his 18-year-old daughter Meadow. &quot;Please pray that this horrific tragedy never happens to another family.&quot;

Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter Alyssa was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, made an emotional appeal to Trump on camera with tears rolling down her face.

&quot;We need action! Action! Action!&quot; Alhadeff urged in an interview with CNN, addressing Trump as the father of an 11-year-old son of his own.

&quot;Let&#39;s protect Barron, and let&#39;s also protect all these other kids here in Parkland, in Florida, and everyone everywhere else,&quot; she said.

Admitting error &#39;isn&#39;t going to cut it

The FBI made a stunning admission earlier in the day, saying a &quot;person close to Nikolas Cruz&quot; made a call to the agency&#39;s public tipline on January 5 to &quot;report concerns about him.&quot;

&quot;The caller provided information about Cruz&#39;s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting,&quot; the FBI said in a statement.

The information from the caller &quot;should have been assessed as a potential threat to life&quot; and forwarded to the agency&#39;s Miami field office, it said.

Instead, &quot;no further investigation was conducted.&quot;

&quot;We have spoken with victims and families, and deeply regret the additional pain this causes all those affected by this horrific tragedy,&quot; said Federal Bureau of Investigation director Christopher Wray, who took up his post in August.

Wray said he was &quot;committed to getting to the bottom of what happened,&quot; and Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered an immediate review to ensure &quot;effective response to indications of potential violence.&quot;

But Florida Governor Rick Scott nevertheless called for the FBI chief to step down, saying the failure to act was &quot;unacceptable.&quot;

&quot;Seventeen innocent people are dead and acknowledging a mistake isn&#39;t going to cut it,&quot; Scott said.

The January warning to the FBI was not the first it had received about Cruz, who used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle that he legally purchased a year ago to spray classrooms with bullets.

In September, the FBI was alerted to a message posted on YouTube, in which a user named Nikolas Cruz vowed: &quot;I&#39;m going to be a professional school shooter.&quot;

The FBI said it had looked into it at the time but was unable to identify the person who made the post.

Illogical

Trump&#39;s visit to the Parkland area -- not far from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he was spending the long President&#39;s Day weekend -- was not announced in advance, perhaps because he risked being greeted with angry demands for action on laws that allowed Cruz to amass an arsenal.

&quot;It&#39;s illogical that the law says a minor can&#39;t have a drink, but can buy a gun,&quot; said 47-year-old Mavy Rubiano, whose child survived the shooting.

In Washington, the political response so far makes it clear that the powerful pro-gun National Rifle Association -- which spent $30 million to support Trump&#39;s election in 2016 -- remains formidable.&nbsp;

On Thursday, Trump&#39;s nationally televised address made no mention of guns, or of previous mass shootings.

The president focused instead on offering sympathy to the families of the victims and the need to provide better mental health care.

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said it was not a time for arguing over gun control, while Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio said new gun laws alone would not stop shootings.&nbsp;

As with previous mass shootings, the focus of gun control advocates was the easy availability of the AR-15, a civilian version of the US military&#39;s M16.&nbsp;

Millions have been sold around the United States, and AR-15-style rifles were used in the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Texas and Newtown, Connecticut.

The disclosure sparked angry disbelief from members of the Miami suburb of Parkland still reeling from Wednesday's massacre and led Florida's governor to call for the FBI chief to resign

US President Donald Trump on Friday visited a Florida hospital to offer comfort to those wounded in a mass school shooting after the FBI admitted it mishandled a tip about the troubled teen behind the massacre that left 17 dead. The arrival of Trump and his wife Melania came at the end of a difficult day for the families of those killed in Wednesday's rampage at a high school in Parkland, Florida, who learned that the carnage could perhaps have been averted. The FBI, the top US law enforcement agency, admitted it had received a chilling warning in January from a tipster who said the 19-year-old gunman, Nikolas Cruz, could be planning a mass shooting, but that agents failed to follow up. At Broward Health North Hospital, where Trump met with survivors of the shooting, the president thanked the doctors, nurses and first responders for their "incredible" work, and described the carnage as "very sad." He and his wife were also expected to visit the Broward County sheriff's office "to meet with the law enforcement officials whose bravery helped save lives," a White House official said. The president's visit to Parkland -- an area about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Miami -- came amid growing anger among parents and students in the south Florida city over America's seeming unwillingness to toughen gun control laws. "My princess wasn't safe in that school," said Andrew Pollack, speaking at the funeral of his 18-year-old daughter Meadow. "Please pray that this horrific tragedy never happens to another family." Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter Alyssa was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, made an emotional appeal to Trump on camera with tears rolling down her face. "We need action! Action! Action!" Alhadeff urged in an interview with CNN, addressing Trump as the father of an 11-year-old son of his own. "Let's protect Barron, and let's also protect all these other kids here in Parkland, in Florida, and everyone everywhere else," she said. Admitting error 'isn't going to cut it The FBI made a stunning admission earlier in the day, saying a "person close to Nikolas Cruz" made a call to the agency's public tipline on January 5 to "report concerns about him." "The caller provided information about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting," the FBI said in a statement. The information from the caller "should have been assessed as a potential threat to life" and forwarded to the agency's Miami field office, it said. Instead, "no further investigation was conducted." "We have spoken with victims and families, and deeply regret the additional pain this causes all those affected by this horrific tragedy," said Federal Bureau of Investigation director Christopher Wray, who took up his post in August. Wray said he was "committed to getting to the bottom of what happened," and Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered an immediate review to ensure "effective response to indications of potential violence." But Florida Governor Rick Scott nevertheless called for the FBI chief to step down, saying the failure to act was "unacceptable." "Seventeen innocent people are dead and acknowledging a mistake isn't going to cut it," Scott said. The January warning to the FBI was not the first it had received about Cruz, who used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle that he legally purchased a year ago to spray classrooms with bullets. In September, the FBI was alerted to a message posted on YouTube, in which a user named Nikolas Cruz vowed: "I'm going to be a professional school shooter." The FBI said it had looked into it at the time but was unable to identify the person who made the post. Illogical Trump's visit to the Parkland area -- not far from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he was spending the long President's Day weekend -- was not announced in advance, perhaps because he risked being greeted with angry demands for action on laws that allowed Cruz to amass an arsenal. "It's illogical that the law says a minor can't have a drink, but can buy a gun," said 47-year-old Mavy Rubiano, whose child survived the shooting. In Washington, the political response so far makes it clear that the powerful pro-gun National Rifle Association -- which spent $30 million to support Trump's election in 2016 -- remains formidable. On Thursday, Trump's nationally televised address made no mention of guns, or of previous mass shootings. The president focused instead on offering sympathy to the families of the victims and the need to provide better mental health care. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said it was not a time for arguing over gun control, while Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio said new gun laws alone would not stop shootings. As with previous mass shootings, the focus of gun control advocates was the easy availability of the AR-15, a civilian version of the US military's M16. Millions have been sold around the United States, and AR-15-style rifles were used in the mass shootings in Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Texas and Newtown, Connecticut.

Trump visits Florida shooting survivors, FBI admits it missed tip

Created by former employees of PayPal and now owned by Google - the&nbsp;current video sharing giant &#39;YouTube&#39; was activated on Monday, February 14 in 2005.

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim while they were working for online payment company PayPal.

Also read: <a href="http://www.wionews.com/photos/a-roller-coaster-ride-of-youtube-in-2017-621">YouTube&#39;s roller-coaster ride in 2017</a>

YouTube&#39;s initial headquarter was above Pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo in California.

However, the domain was activated on February 14th, 2005 but the video upload feature was integrated on April 23 in the same year.

Angel-funded enterprise YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the world wide web in just one year of its beginning.

In November 2005, venture capital firm Sequoia Capital invested in the site with 3.5 million dollars and Roelof Botha partner in the same firm and former CFO of PayPal joined the YouTube board of directors.

In June of 2006, YouTube entered into a marketing and advertising partnership with NBC and in November Google announced that it would be purchased by Google for $1.65 in stock.

In the same glorious year of YouTube, it was featured as &#39;person of the year&#39; in Times magazine&#39;s&nbsp; annual issue.

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It was also listed at ninth best products of 2006 by global computer magazine PC world.

YouTube currently has about 1 billion users and over 30 million people visit in a day.

YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim while they were working for online payment company PayPal

Created by former employees of PayPal and now owned by Google - the current video sharing giant 'YouTube' was activated on Monday, February 14 in 2005. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim while they were working for online payment company PayPal. Also read: YouTube's roller-coaster ride in 2017 YouTube's initial headquarter was above Pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo in California. However, the domain was activated on February 14th, 2005 but the video upload feature was integrated on April 23 in the same year. Angel-funded enterprise YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the world wide web in just one year of its beginning. In November 2005, venture capital firm Sequoia Capital invested in the site with 3.5 million dollars and Roelof Botha partner in the same firm and former CFO of PayPal joined the YouTube board of directors. In June of 2006, YouTube entered into a marketing and advertising partnership with NBC and in November Google announced that it would be purchased by Google for $1.65 in stock. In the same glorious year of YouTube, it was featured as 'person of the year' in Times magazine's annual issue. YouTube was featured Times magazine's 'person of the year' annual issue. (Image courtesy: Times archive) (Others) × It was also listed at ninth best products of 2006 by global computer magazine PC world. YouTube currently has about 1 billion users and over 30 million people visit in a day.

Watch: Did you know YouTube was activated on Valentine's Day?

The US State Department has designated two ISIS members, Siddhartha Dhar and Abdelatif Gaini, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Section 1(b) of Executive Order which also imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed&nbsp;or pose a significant risk of committing&nbsp;acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals, the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the US.

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Here is everything you want to know about the new&nbsp;&quot;<a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/us-designates-indian-origin-isis-man-called-new-jihadi-john-global-terrorist-30575">New Jihadi John</a>.&quot;

&#39;New Jihadi John,&#39; Siddhartha Dhar is a British Hindu who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abu Rumayash.

Dhar was born in London to a Bengali Family.

Siddhartha Dhar was working as a spokesperson for Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun, an outfit&nbsp;banned in London.

Dhar also owned a bouncy castle rental company, all his property which now has been frozen.

In a video posted on his YouTube, Dhar has called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant &quot;a dream for all Muslims worldwide.&quot;

Dhar was under investigation by British authorities for allegedly encouraging terrorism but he was released on bail, after which he was disappeared.

During an interview with BBC&#39;s Sunday Morning Live, Dhar had said he doesn&#39;t identify himself with British values, &#39;I am Muslim first, second and last, he added.&#39;

Dhar is married to a girl named Aisha, and four children with whom he arrived in Syria in 2014 and now believed to be living in the Raqqa city of Syria.

Dhar has written a travel guide to the Islamic State in May 2015, call &#39;A Brief Guide to Islamic State.&#39;&nbsp;

He appeared in the Channel 4 documentary &#39;The Jihadis Next Door.&#39;

Dhar is believed to have replaced ISIS executioner Mohammad Emwazi after he killed in drone strike in 2015.

Dhar has also been suspected to be a masked leader in a January 2016 ISIS video showing the execution of several prisoners, accused of spying for the UK.

Media reports quote a Yazidi teenager held for a sex slave by ISIS in May 2016 that she was kidnapped and trafficked by Siddhartha Dhar.&nbsp;

Dhar is a British Hindu who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abu Rumayash

The US State Department has designated two ISIS members, Siddhartha Dhar and Abdelatif Gaini, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Section 1(b) of Executive Order which also imposes sanctions on foreign persons determined to have committed or pose a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals, the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the US. × Here is everything you want to know about the new "New Jihadi John." 'New Jihadi John,' Siddhartha Dhar is a British Hindu who converted to Islam and changed his name to Abu Rumayash. Dhar was born in London to a Bengali Family. Siddhartha Dhar was working as a spokesperson for Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun, an outfit banned in London. Dhar also owned a bouncy castle rental company, all his property which now has been frozen. In a video posted on his YouTube, Dhar has called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant "a dream for all Muslims worldwide." Dhar was under investigation by British authorities for allegedly encouraging terrorism but he was released on bail, after which he was disappeared. During an interview with BBC's Sunday Morning Live, Dhar had said he doesn't identify himself with British values, 'I am Muslim first, second and last, he added.' Dhar is married to a girl named Aisha, and four children with whom he arrived in Syria in 2014 and now believed to be living in the Raqqa city of Syria. Dhar has written a travel guide to the Islamic State in May 2015, call 'A Brief Guide to Islamic State.' He appeared in the Channel 4 documentary 'The Jihadis Next Door.' Dhar is believed to have replaced ISIS executioner Mohammad Emwazi after he killed in drone strike in 2015. Dhar has also been suspected to be a masked leader in a January 2016 ISIS video showing the execution of several prisoners, accused of spying for the UK. Media reports quote a Yazidi teenager held for a sex slave by ISIS in May 2016 that she was kidnapped and trafficked by Siddhartha Dhar.

Who is 'New Jihadi John' Siddhartha Dhar?

WhatsApp rolls out its YouTube integration feature for iPhone users.

The Facebook-owned messaging application was planning to introduce the YouTube support feature for a long time.&nbsp;

The &#39;Picture-in-Picture&#39; YouTube feature can be accessed after installing the latest WhatsApp version --v2.18.11-- on an iPhone.&nbsp;

The feature enables a user to view YouTube content in the chat interface without opening the YouTube app or a browser window.

Users will be able to play, pause or access YouTube content in fullscreen right from within the chat interface.&nbsp;

The YouTube video continues to play even when the chat is exited or if a person switches between multiple chats.&nbsp;

It must be noted that only those videos can be viewed which a user receives from other contacts on WhatsApp.

YouTube videos shared with others cannot be watched within&nbsp;WhatsApp&#39;s interface.

The feature was earlier made available to BETA users and is now accessible to iPhone users.

There is no information on when will the feature be rolled out on other operating systems.&nbsp;

To access the 'Picture-in-Picture' YouTube feature, users need to install the latest version of WhatsApp -- v2.18.11

WhatsApp rolls out its YouTube integration feature for iPhone users. The Facebook-owned messaging application was planning to introduce the YouTube support feature for a long time. The 'Picture-in-Picture' YouTube feature can be accessed after installing the latest WhatsApp version --v2.18.11-- on an iPhone. The feature enables a user to view YouTube content in the chat interface without opening the YouTube app or a browser window. Users will be able to play, pause or access YouTube content in fullscreen right from within the chat interface. The YouTube video continues to play even when the chat is exited or if a person switches between multiple chats. It must be noted that only those videos can be viewed which a user receives from other contacts on WhatsApp. YouTube videos shared with others cannot be watched within WhatsApp's interface. The feature was earlier made available to BETA users and is now accessible to iPhone users. There is no information on when will the feature be rolled out on other operating systems.

Now, iPhone users can watch YouTube videos on WhatsApp

Alphabet&nbsp;Google is making its second attempt in less than a year to protect advertisers on its YouTube user channels from being associated with videos featuring violence, gore or bad language.

Under the new standards, Google will remove advertising from a &quot;significant&quot; number of YouTube channels, 99 per cent of which generated less than $100 from ads in the last year, the company announced Tuesday in response to advertisers that felt they have been underwriting inappropriate material.

Google is vowing to have people review every second of the most popular videos eligible for advertising by the end of March worldwide, and it is modifying the prerequisites for having a commercial channel.

&quot;While we took several steps last year to protect advertisers from inappropriate content, we know we need to do more to ensure that their ads run alongside content that reflects their values,&quot; Paul Muret, Google vice president of display, video and analytics, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

The previous round of policy-tightening came after more than 250 advertisers cut back on YouTube ad-buying last spring following news reports that found their ads displayed alongside extremist propaganda.

Many brands returned within weeks or months, only to again suspend dealings with YouTube in the autumn because of headlines that linked them to videos in which children appeared endangered or popular cartoons that had been disturbingly altered. Mondelez International, whose brands include Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, and computer and printer maker HP&nbsp;were among dropouts.

The issues have not affected YouTube&#39;s revenue, which represents a crucial growth area for Google, according to financial analysts.

Starting Feb. 20, videomakers will need to attract users watching a total of at least 4,000 hours of their clips within the preceding 12 months and notch 1,000 followers before being able to host ads and share in revenue from them. The requirement introduced last April had been 10,000 followers with no viewing time standard.

Booting small channels from advertising eligibility will not fully address concerns raised by advertisers about videomakers going too far, YouTube acknowledged in the blog post.

Celebrity video blogger Logan Paul has 15 million followers, but YouTube last week pared back its commercial relationship with him after he drew public outrage for showing a suicide victim in a clip.

YouTube executives said they would &quot;schedule conversations with our creators in the months ahead&quot; to see &quot;what more we can do to tackle that challenge.&quot;

Alphabet Google is making its second attempt in less than a year to protect advertisers on its YouTube user channels from being associated with videos featuring violence, gore or bad language

Alphabet Google is making its second attempt in less than a year to protect advertisers on its YouTube user channels from being associated with videos featuring violence, gore or bad language. Under the new standards, Google will remove advertising from a "significant" number of YouTube channels, 99 per cent of which generated less than $100 from ads in the last year, the company announced Tuesday in response to advertisers that felt they have been underwriting inappropriate material. Google is vowing to have people review every second of the most popular videos eligible for advertising by the end of March worldwide, and it is modifying the prerequisites for having a commercial channel. "While we took several steps last year to protect advertisers from inappropriate content, we know we need to do more to ensure that their ads run alongside content that reflects their values," Paul Muret, Google vice president of display, video and analytics, wrote in a blog post Tuesday. The previous round of policy-tightening came after more than 250 advertisers cut back on YouTube ad-buying last spring following news reports that found their ads displayed alongside extremist propaganda. Many brands returned within weeks or months, only to again suspend dealings with YouTube in the autumn because of headlines that linked them to videos in which children appeared endangered or popular cartoons that had been disturbingly altered. Mondelez International, whose brands include Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, and computer and printer maker HP were among dropouts. The issues have not affected YouTube's revenue, which represents a crucial growth area for Google, according to financial analysts. Starting Feb. 20, videomakers will need to attract users watching a total of at least 4,000 hours of their clips within the preceding 12 months and notch 1,000 followers before being able to host ads and share in revenue from them. The requirement introduced last April had been 10,000 followers with no viewing time standard. Booting small channels from advertising eligibility will not fully address concerns raised by advertisers about videomakers going too far, YouTube acknowledged in the blog post. Celebrity video blogger Logan Paul has 15 million followers, but YouTube last week pared back its commercial relationship with him after he drew public outrage for showing a suicide victim in a clip. YouTube executives said they would "schedule conversations with our creators in the months ahead" to see "what more we can do to tackle that challenge."

YouTube again revises rules to protect advertisers from offensive content

Youtube announced on Wednesday that they will be removing famous US vlogger Logan Paul from Google Preferred platform and also putting future projects on hold following a video he posted of a suicide victim in Japan.

&ldquo;In light of recent events, we have decided to remove Logan Paul&rsquo;s channels from Google Preferred. Additionally, we will not feature Logan in season 4 of &lsquo;Foursome&rsquo; and his new Originals are on hold,&rdquo; Alphabet Inc.&rsquo;s YouTube, said in a statement.&#39;&#39;

Paul posted a video on his Youtube channel on December 31 which showed him and his friends laughing and making jokes at a man&#39;s body hanging from a tree at the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides.

Paul later took down the video, titled &quot;So Sorry&quot;, after he got major backlash from the audience.&nbsp;

He also issued an apology and posted a tweet on January 2 saying that he made a &quot;huge mistake.&quot;

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He also uploaded a video where he apologised again and said: &quot;I should have never posted the video. I should have put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through.&quot;

&quot;I&#39;m ashamed of myself,&quot; he added. &quot;I&#39;m disappointed in myself.&quot;

Google Preferred features YouTube&rsquo;s most popular content in packages for sale to advertisers.

Paul, 22, is one of YouTube&rsquo;s top content creators, regularly drawing millions of views from his mainly youth-orientated audience.

Paul&rsquo;s channel, Logan Paul Vlogs, which has more than 15 million subscribers, is still active on YouTube and advertisers can still choose to advertise on his videos, or they can opt out.

Paul also had projects in the works with YouTube&rsquo;s premium subscription service, YouTube Red, and appeared on the platform&rsquo;s web series &ldquo;Foursome,&rdquo; which have now been put on hold.

YouTube in an open letter on Tuesday said it was &ldquo;upset by the video that was shared last week,&rdquo; saying that &ldquo;suicide is not a joke, nor should it ever be a driving force for views.&rdquo;

The company said Paul&rsquo;s video violated its guidelines and it was &ldquo;looking at further consequences.&rdquo;

Paul posted a video on his Youtube channel on December 31 which showed him and his friends laughing and making jokes at a man's body hanging from a tree at the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides

Youtube announced on Wednesday that they will be removing famous US vlogger Logan Paul from Google Preferred platform and also putting future projects on hold following a video he posted of a suicide victim in Japan. “In light of recent events, we have decided to remove Logan Paul’s channels from Google Preferred. Additionally, we will not feature Logan in season 4 of ‘Foursome’ and his new Originals are on hold,” Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, said in a statement.'' Paul posted a video on his Youtube channel on December 31 which showed him and his friends laughing and making jokes at a man's body hanging from a tree at the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides. Paul later took down the video, titled "So Sorry", after he got major backlash from the audience. He also issued an apology and posted a tweet on January 2 saying that he made a "huge mistake." Dear Internet, pic.twitter.com/42OCDBhiWg — Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 2, 2018 × He also uploaded a video where he apologised again and said: "I should have never posted the video. I should have put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through." "I'm ashamed of myself," he added. "I'm disappointed in myself." Google Preferred features YouTube’s most popular content in packages for sale to advertisers. Paul, 22, is one of YouTube’s top content creators, regularly drawing millions of views from his mainly youth-orientated audience. Paul’s channel, Logan Paul Vlogs, which has more than 15 million subscribers, is still active on YouTube and advertisers can still choose to advertise on his videos, or they can opt out. Paul also had projects in the works with YouTube’s premium subscription service, YouTube Red, and appeared on the platform’s web series “Foursome,” which have now been put on hold. YouTube in an open letter on Tuesday said it was “upset by the video that was shared last week,” saying that “suicide is not a joke, nor should it ever be a driving force for views.” The company said Paul’s video violated its guidelines and it was “looking at further consequences.”

Youtube star Logan Paul removed from Google Preferred after Japan suicide video

YouTube is planning to introduce a paid music streaming service in March.

Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Merlin, a consortium of independent labels, &nbsp;are in talks with the website.

Record Label Warner Music Group has already signed with the service.

The streaming service will&nbsp;call&nbsp;&quot;Remix&quot; and it will be competing with Spotify and Apple.

Music streaming website like Spotify and Apply music have become hugely popular in recent times and launching &quot;Remix&quot; is going to the parent company Alphabet&#39;s third attempt to compete with these giants.

YouTube Red launched a subscription-based service for exclusive content from popular creators like Lily Singh, Michael Stevens, Liza Koshy, in 2016.

Google has also launched its streaming app called Google Play Music in 2011.

(With inputs from news agency)

Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Merlin, a consortium of independent labels, are in talks with the website

YouTube is planning to introduce a paid music streaming service in March. Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Merlin, a consortium of independent labels, are in talks with the website. Record Label Warner Music Group has already signed with the service. The streaming service will call "Remix" and it will be competing with Spotify and Apple. Music streaming website like Spotify and Apply music have become hugely popular in recent times and launching "Remix" is going to the parent company Alphabet's third attempt to compete with these giants. YouTube Red launched a subscription-based service for exclusive content from popular creators like Lily Singh, Michael Stevens, Liza Koshy, in 2016. Google has also launched its streaming app called Google Play Music in 2011. (With inputs from news agency)

YouTube to launch music subscription service 'Remix' next year

Google has announced that it will no longer support YouTube on Echo Show and Amazon&rsquo;s Fire TV devices. The announcement comes just months after the company decided to withdraw support for YouTube on Echo Show.

Google&rsquo;s move irked a lot of Echo Show users in the US and Amazon had to resort to a workaround by redirecting users to the web version. Google now says even the web version of YouTube will stop working on&nbsp;Echo Show. The service will also become unavailable on Fire TV, where YouTube is a central part of the entire device experience.

YouTube will stop working on Echo Show starting today while Fire TV users will start a seeing a notification warning them that the service will become unavailable starting January 1.

Three months ago, Google decided to stop allowing Echo Show to access YouTube citing violation of terms of service. Google claimed Amazon&rsquo;s implementation of YouTube on Echo Show offers a broken experience and violates its design guidelines. Amazon said there is no technical reason for this move and stopped selling Google-owned Nest&rsquo;s Thermostat, Camera IQ and Secure alarm system.

&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been trying to reach agreement with Amazon to give consumers access to each other&rsquo;s products and services. But Amazon doesn&rsquo;t carry Google products like Chromecast and Google Home, doesn&rsquo;t make Prime Video available for Google Cast users, and last month stopped selling some of Nest&rsquo;s latest products. Given this lack of reciprocity, we are no longer supporting YouTube on Echo Show and FireTV. We hope we can reach an agreement to resolve these issues soon,&rdquo; a YouTube spokesperson said announcing the end of support.

Google wants Amazon to customise YouTube to show options like autoplay, video recommendation and subscription on Echo Show and by dropping support for Fire TV, the search giant hopes Amazon will adhere to its design guidelines. Google is also&nbsp;rumoured&nbsp;to be working on its own Echo Show competitor offering better integration with YouTube. Amazon has not commented on YouTube&rsquo;s end of support for Echo Show and Fire TV yet but it is likely to affect consumers more than these tech giants.

Google?s move irked a lot of Echo Show users in the US and Amazon had to resort to a workaround by redirecting users to the web version.

Google has announced that it will no longer support YouTube on Echo Show and Amazon’s Fire TV devices. The announcement comes just months after the company decided to withdraw support for YouTube on Echo Show. Google’s move irked a lot of Echo Show users in the US and Amazon had to resort to a workaround by redirecting users to the web version. Google now says even the web version of YouTube will stop working on Echo Show. The service will also become unavailable on Fire TV, where YouTube is a central part of the entire device experience. YouTube will stop working on Echo Show starting today while Fire TV users will start a seeing a notification warning them that the service will become unavailable starting January 1. Three months ago, Google decided to stop allowing Echo Show to access YouTube citing violation of terms of service. Google claimed Amazon’s implementation of YouTube on Echo Show offers a broken experience and violates its design guidelines. Amazon said there is no technical reason for this move and stopped selling Google-owned Nest’s Thermostat, Camera IQ and Secure alarm system. “We’ve been trying to reach agreement with Amazon to give consumers access to each other’s products and services. But Amazon doesn’t carry Google products like Chromecast and Google Home, doesn’t make Prime Video available for Google Cast users, and last month stopped selling some of Nest’s latest products. Given this lack of reciprocity, we are no longer supporting YouTube on Echo Show and FireTV. We hope we can reach an agreement to resolve these issues soon,” a YouTube spokesperson said announcing the end of support. Google wants Amazon to customise YouTube to show options like autoplay, video recommendation and subscription on Echo Show and by dropping support for Fire TV, the search giant hopes Amazon will adhere to its design guidelines. Google is also rumoured to be working on its own Echo Show competitor offering better integration with YouTube. Amazon has not commented on YouTube’s end of support for Echo Show and Fire TV yet but it is likely to affect consumers more than these tech giants.

Google withdraws support for YouTube on Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show

Google has said it will deploy, by 2018, a total of 10,000 people to hunt down content on YouTube that is extremist or could endanger children, media reports said.&nbsp;&nbsp;

YouTube CEO&nbsp;Susan Wojcicki admitted to Britain&#39;s Daily Telegraph that &ldquo;bad actors are exploiting&rdquo; the video-sharing site to &ldquo;mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm&rdquo;.

YouTube, which is owned by Google, is the world&#39;s second-most popular site.&nbsp;

The reports said British Prime Minister Theresa May, after a spate of terror attacks in the UK, has put pressure on internet giants to root out extremist content online.&nbsp;

The reports&nbsp;added that YouTube pulled down 150,000 videos of children last week after viewers posted lewd comments about them.&nbsp;

The move came after media reports that&nbsp;ads for big brands were displayed alongside videos of children.

By themselves, they were innocent, but taken together they attracted viewer comments that seemed paedophilic in nature.&nbsp;

News reports said the situation made advertisers nervous, with some stopping YouTube advertising.

Wojcicki added that her company had developed &quot;computer-learning&quot; technology to identify videos that were extremist. And that the same technology could be used to identify content that endangers children.&nbsp;

&quot;We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018,&quot; she said.&nbsp;

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YouTube, the world's second-most popular website, will be policed for content that is extremist or could endanger children

Google has said it will deploy, by 2018, a total of 10,000 people to hunt down content on YouTube that is extremist or could endanger children, media reports said. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admitted to Britain's Daily Telegraph that “bad actors are exploiting” the video-sharing site to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm”. YouTube, which is owned by Google, is the world's second-most popular site. The reports said British Prime Minister Theresa May, after a spate of terror attacks in the UK, has put pressure on internet giants to root out extremist content online. The reports added that YouTube pulled down 150,000 videos of children last week after viewers posted lewd comments about them. The move came after media reports that ads for big brands were displayed alongside videos of children. By themselves, they were innocent, but taken together they attracted viewer comments that seemed paedophilic in nature. News reports said the situation made advertisers nervous, with some stopping YouTube advertising. Wojcicki added that her company had developed "computer-learning" technology to identify videos that were extremist. And that the same technology could be used to identify content that endangers children. "We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate our policies to over 10,000 in 2018," she said.

10,000 Google staff to police YouTube content

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