Here are the standout YouTube VR videos from 2020. The story underlying all others in 2020 is Covid-19. The pandemic was a singular, generational event, disrupting the lives of billions worldwide.

On Dec. 9, 2020, YouTube enacted a ban on videos that falsely claimed then-President Trump won the U.S. presidential election. Since then, according to the platform, it has removed “tens of thousands” ...

A nine-year-old is still number one, but the runner-up is a newcomer who came armed with a forklift, an exploding Toyota and the most expensive firecracker ever made. And he’s just getting started. T ...

YouTube on Friday announced a major change in its approach to US election misinformation, saying it will no longer remove videos that make false claims about the 2020 election or previous presidential ...

The company said that it was making the change because the deadline for recounts and audits of the election had passed. By Davey Alba YouTube on Wednesday announced changes to how it handles videos ...

YouTube Shorts, a bid to tap into the surging popularity of short-form, shareable clips — a format that has fueled TikTok’s massive growth — is going global. The Google video platform initially ...