South Korea's young shamans revive ancient tradition with social media
SEOUL - With statues of the Buddha and local gods, candles and incense sticks, Ms Lee Kyoung-hyun's shrine looks similar to those of Korean shamans from centuries past.
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TikTok ban won’t solve foreign influence, data privacy problems
When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to challenge the law in court.
K-Pop Group Asks U.S. Court for Help Finding YouTube User in Defamation Case
NewJeans, one of the biggest K-pop acts, has asked a federal court in California to order Google to release the identity of the person behind a YouTube account that the members say is spreading defamatory statements about them.
How dubious YouTube ‘news’ channels are shaping India’s election
In YouTube’s largest market, self-proclaimed news channels are booming, gaining millions of viewers peddling falsehoods aimed at helping Prime Minister Modi’s campaign.
‘Redefining journalism’: how a Nepali YouTube series goes off the beaten track to bring untold stories to light
Herne Katha, a web documentary series, has emerged as one of the country’s most popular journalistic endeavours in recent years. Since 2018, co-founders and hosts Bidhya Chapagain and Kamal Kumar have travelled to “unexplored places to find untold stories”, giving viewers a glimpse of people’s lives that have remained invisible to many.
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen returns to Taiwan to tap tech talent, link island with Silicon Valley
After decades in California, Steve Chen, the multimillionaire co-founder of YouTube, has returned to his birthplace of Taiwan with plans to harvest the island’s untapped tech talent by forging connections with Silicon Valley.
Sextortion training materials found on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to new report
A form of cybercrime called "financial sextortion" is rapidly rising in North America and Australia, with a major portion driven by a non-organized cybercriminal group in West Africa who call themselves "Yahoo Boys," according to a new study from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI).
YouTube star MrBeast makes more than $263,000 in X video, but calls it ‘a bit of a facade’
Jimmy Donaldson, the internet sensation known as MrBeast, recently took his talents to X, formerly known as Twitter, to see how his earnings from a video there would compare to how much he typically makes on YouTube.