LOS ANGELES – Google rejected a request from the Walt Disney Company to restore ABC to YouTube TV, the streaming platform Google owns, for a day on Nov. 4 to provide coverage of the day's elections.

Disney’s networks went dark on YouTube TV shortly before the companies’ prior agreement expired Oct. 30 at midnight ET. According to Google, Disney has asked for an unprecedented fee increase for the ...

YouTube TV and Disney are sparring over content distribution rights following the expiration of their contract last month. Movies, TV shows, and 21 channels disappeared from YouTube TV as a result, ...

The transition to the more-secure HTTPS web protocol has plateaued, according to Google. As of 2020, 95 to 99 percent of navigations in Chrome use HTTPS. To help make it safer for users to click on ...

ESPN programming could be removed from YouTube TV if a new contractual agreement isn't met by the end of October. Google, parent company of YouTube TV, and Disney, parent company of ESPN, need to ...

YouTube and YouTube Music face massive outages in the U.S., with more than 200,000 users reporting issues Wednesday afternoon. YouTube is down for thousands of users in the United States on Wednesday ...

Google admitted earlier this week that its COVID-era censorship policies were enacted at the explicit behest of the Biden administration, and the company now says it will allow any content creator ...

In part two of How YouTube Ate TV, Fast Company’s oral history of YouTube, we look at how the company’s rapid ascent after its 2005 founding led to multiple challenges, from bandwidth costs to unhappy ...

In late September 2025, a rumor began to spread that Google had admitted to censoring content on YouTube at the behest of the administration of former U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat. The claim ...

WASHINGTON — Google told House lawmakers Tuesday that it would reinstate YouTube accounts that the Biden administration “pressed” them to “remove” over content related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Google admitted President Joe Biden’s administration “pressed” the tech giant and YouTube to censor content the administration felt was COVID-19 “misinformation.” Now, YouTube and Google are calling ...