A Reuters investigation examines its tactics, including efforts to make scam ads “not findable” when authorities search for ...

What does YouTube verification actually mean? There are two types of verifications on YouTube: account verification and channel verification. Account verification: This is the typical authentication ...

From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong. I've been covering the tech industry, ...

YouTube shared its plan earlier this year to begin using AI to flag accounts that may not be in use by adults. Enforcement began over the summer, with flagged users asked to submit documentation ...

AI content has proliferated across the Internet over the past few years, but those early confabulations with mutated hands have evolved into synthetic images and videos that can be hard to ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. In August, YouTube began rolling out a new system that uses AI algorithms to estimate users' ages in the United States. If your ...

YouTube is slowly rolling out an AI program that scans users search history and personal data to verify age. YouTube will soon be implementing an age-verification process — leadership claims the move ...

The Supreme Court will allow Mississippi to enforce a law requiring social media sites verify the age of users or receive parental consent as the law awaits a legal challenge—but Justice Brett ...

It’s no secret that YouTube, a major platform for creators, has a kids problem. Even though viewers aged two to 11 years old make up about 17% of YouTube’s audience, the platform has been called ...

YouTube is cracking down on its age verification process as the company is using artificial intelligence tools to guess its users ages. The decision from YouTube is an effort to prevent children from ...

YouTube is rolling out AI-powered age verification as a new safety feature starting Wednesday. The company announced it would begin testing the age verification technology at the end of July, ...