Tech and music industry leaders testified about the dangers of deepfakes made with artificial intelligence on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would protect people’s voices and likenesses from replication without consent.

A popular Turkish American online streamer who is critical of President Donald Trump was recently detained and questioned at O’Hare International Airport after his flight from Paris landed in Chicago.

Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual Social Media Safety Index.

Georgia's law requiring parental consent for children to use social media is being challenged in court.

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HISD is implementing more changes to its transportation in the upcoming school year.

Utah is moving to protect the children of online content creators following the child abuse conviction of Ruby Franke, who dispensed parenting advice to millions of people online.

Tabitha Brown can do it all. Perhaps best-known as the vegan chef who spreads positivity through her popular social media videos, she's also an actress, producer, entrepreneur, host, New York Times best-selling author, wife, mom, and the list goes on. Her latest project is her very first children's book and it's based on her childhood, growing up and learning to spread joy and kindness. Where does Tabitha get her positive attitude? Watch the full interview with Houston Life's Derrick Shore to find out.

“Chicken Shop Date” creator Amelia Dimoldenberg is returning to the Oscars red carpet for the second year.

Actor Kim Sae-ron’s death adds to the list of celebrity deaths in South Korea that underscore the enormous pressure they face under the gaze of a relentlessly unforgiving media that pounces on their every misstep.

Jake Paul punched back at Canelo Alvarez on Friday night, a day after the Mexican boxing icon passed up a speculated bout with the YouTube star and agreed to a four-fight deal with Riyadh Season.

A $200,000 bond has been set for YouTube star Corey Pritchett Jr. after he appeared before a judge Thursday morning for a case involving kidnapping, a high-speed chase, and alleged death threats, according to court documents.

Houston-based social media personality and YouTube star Corey Pritchett Jr. is facing kidnapping charges in a case involving a high-speed chase and alleged death threats, according to court documents.

Thousands have braved the frigid January weather in Seoul protests, waving South Korean and American flags and shouting vows to protect their embattled conservative hero, the impeached South Korean president facing imprisonment over potential rebellion charges.

He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his signature mode of art.

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized the short-form video app.

Houston-based social media personality and YouTube star Corey Corey Pritchett Jr. is facing kidnapping charges in a case involving a high-speed chase and alleged death threats, according to court documents.

Jabbar, who was killed in a shootout with police, previously served in the U.S. military and worked as a realtor in Houston.

MrBeast’s ambitious reality show, which the YouTube megastar hopes will expand his massive online reach and turn the corner on recent controversies, is already raising questions from consumer advocates over a partnership with a fintech company.

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Nearly half of American teenagers say they are online “constantly,” despite concerns about the effects of social media and smartphones on their mental health.

“Anora,” Sean Baker’s odyssey of a New York stripper, and Jane Schoenbrun’s psychological horror “I Saw the TV Glow” dominated nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards with six nods each, including best feature and best director.

Online video production company MrBeast says it has fired somewhere between 5 to 10 employees following an investigation into the YouTube empire’s workplace culture.

YouTube star Corey Pritchett Jr. is making headlines after a dramatic fallout with ex-girlfriend Chestine Washington, aka BigBankDanni.

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Arkansas has sued YouTube and its parent company Alphabet, saying the video-sharing platform is deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth.

MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5 million grand prize.

Donald Trump’s campaign has fully embraced the bravado-filled, macho, often contrarian online spaces of younger men on livestreaming platforms.

Ryan got his start in 2015 by making videos opening and playing with new toys, and now he's starring in his very own movie!

Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died.

A confidential memo shows that MrBeast has ordered a full assessment of the internal culture in his YouTube empire and an investigation into “allegations of inappropriate behavior by people in the company."

YouTube’s biggest star MrBeast is facing complaints about the safety of contestants from the preliminary round of his ambitious “Beast Games” game show, which boasts 1,000 competitors hoping for a $5 million grand prize.

MrBeast, YouTube’s biggest star and a philanthropic force with nearly unrivaled influence among young audiences, acknowledged Wednesday that he used inappropriate language in his early online days, as numerous controversies bubbled up around him and a former collaborator.

YouTube is changing its rules to protect its youngest users from potentially harmful firearm videos.

The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song says.

Hong Kong’s leader says his government will keep monitoring for any non-compliance with a court order that bans a popular protest song.

YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong to comply with a removal order, days after a court approved an injunction to ban the song in the city.

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Misinformation about India's election is surging online as the world's most populous country votes.

While a bill to ban TikTok if it doesn't change owners has received President Joe Biden's signature, it could still be years before the popular video-sharing app is actually blocked from U.S. app stores — if it is blocked at all.

Cambodian authorities are investigating the abuse of monkeys at the famous Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Houston police have arrested a man in connection with a murder at a YouTube influencer party in downtown Houston.

Alligator sighting at Sea Rim State Park in southeast Texas captured on video by fishing enthusiast Hunter Ham.

Alligator sighting at Sea Rim State Park in southeast Texas captured on video by fishing enthusiast Hunter Ham.

Texas-based comedian Andrew Youngblood is in the house. He was on Houston Life back in December right before he filmed his special at the secret group. The special, "I'll tell you this" was just released yesterday. We're chatting with him about the drop.

This year’s WrestleMania is just days away, but WWE’s marketing campaign for its biggest premium live event of the year was kicked into overdrive months ago.

The Oscars have been handed out, and maybe there's a film you missed and want to watch.

As WWE gears up for its biggest annual premium live event next month, the company continues to harness the power of its social media presence to reach its fans.

Mexico’s president has again lashed out at social media platform YouTube for taking down part of his daily news briefing where he revealed a reporter’s phone number.

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A graphic video from a Pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father that circulated for hours on YouTube has put a spotlight yet again on gaps in social media companies’ ability to prevent horrific postings from spreading across the web.

After a bruising year for the film industry, Christopher Nolan's atomic hit “Oppenheimer” has emerged the winner of the Academy Awards nomination race.

A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.

A trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other major tech companies has sued Ohio over a pending law that requires children to get parental consent to use social media apps.

Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents.

The U.S. Justice Department says an influencer who staged a California plane crash to make a YouTube video of himself parachuting to safety has been sentenced to six months in prison.

Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” Todd Haynes’ “May December” and Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” got a leading five nominations, including best feature, from the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including requiring creators to reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.

Jack Douglass, the creator behind Jacksfilms, said Alia Shelesh, the YouTuber known as SSSniperwolf, came to his home and posted images of it to Instagram.

Mother and daughter duo from 'Mommy and Me: The Listers' share frightening and spooktacular science activities you can do with your little ones.

A man died, and a second man was taken to the hospital after a shooting at a YouTube influencer party in downtown Houston on Saturday, the Houston Police Department said.

Artificial intelligence tools that can conjure whimsical artwork or realistic-looking images from written commands started wowing crowds last year.

YouTube says Russell Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site after several women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned influencer.

Google is introducing its artificially intelligent chatbot named Bard to other members of its digital family — including Gmail, Maps and YouTube — as it seeks to ward off competitive threats posed by similar technology run by Open AI and Microsoft.

Authorities were summoned last year to the Utah home of Ruby Franke, the YouTube family influencer charged with multiple counts of child abuse, after a concerned neighbor said her children had been left home alone for several days, a police report shows.

India has launched its first space mission to study the sun, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south pole region of the moon.

Are you tired of your kids spending too much time on social media? A Houston area psychiatrist is handing out some healthy tips and explaining how the use of social media could be beneficial to some kids.

Children's advocacy groups including Fairplay and Common Sense Media are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google, saying the tech giant serves personalized ads to kids on YouTube despite federal law prohibiting the practice.

Children in Georgia would need their parents' permission to create social media accounts if some top Republicans in the state get their way next year.

An 11-year-old Florida girl was arrested after falsely texting authorities that her friend was kidnapped by an armed man. She later confessed the prank was part of a YouTube challenge.

It’s Spotify’s first price increase since 2011.

A man charged in the Capitol riot who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s Washington home will remain in jail while he awaits trial.

The Swedish YouTuber, best known as Felix Kjellberg, made the announcement on Instagram in a collaboration post with his wife Marzia on the birth of their son, Björn.

Big Freedia, the queen of bounce, said she is finding joy in making music for children.

YouTube says it will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election and other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by widespread fraud, errors or glitches.

The firing of two employees at a religious school in western New York is fanning the culture wars roiling parts of the United States.

YouTube is great at sending users videos that it thinks they'll like based on their interests.

YouTube is great at sending users videos that it thinks they'll like based on their interests.

A YouTuber whose single-engine airplane crashed in a California national forest admitted that he downed the aircraft to boost views for a sponsorship deal, authorities said Thursday.

Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the cast of “Ted Lasso” and the web series that gave us a kid loving corn are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards.

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It took seven people to help get the fish off of the boat.

In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter who was killed in a terrorist attack.

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.

A longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company’s creation is stepping down as YouTube’s CEO.

Ohio’s governor wants to require parental consent for kids under 16 to get new accounts on TikTok, Snapchat and other social media and gaming platforms.

A 23-year-old Katy man is out on bond after he fled from Texas state troopers three different times, twice at high speeds and once on foot.

Dozens of Iraqi residents and activists are protesting in the city of Diwaniyah days after a 22-year-old YouTube star was killed allegedly by her father.

H-Town’s very own YouTuber “Unspeakable” has a goal on Jan. 21: turn the Toyota Center into a massive ball pit. It’s said to be the most extreme challenge yet.

Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem in the mental health crisis among youth.

The public school district in Seattle is suing the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

YouTube TV has emerged as the favorite to land the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” package of out-of-market games, but the sides have not finalized a deal.

Houston Life chats with local seventh grader Aniyah Cotton, a rapper and actress giving other kids a platform to shine with her YouTube talk show, ‘The Aniyah Cotton show.’

European Union data shows that Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year.

Today on Houston Life, we heard from a local teen who’s making an impact on his community while still in high school. Bailey Moore sat down with Derrick and Courtney to share his passion for helping others and details about his new podcast with youth leader and entrepreneur Jordyn Wright!

Researchers say nearly 1 in 5 videos suggested by YouTube in response to a search for terms related to next week's elections came from untrustworthy sources.

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Brazilian voters are being bombarded by online misinformation, less than a week before they pick their next leader.