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  • Child influencers have huge followings on social media. A new study finds that their videos are frequently exposing their young viewers to junk foods like candy, salty snacks and sugary drinks.
  • Twenty years ago, three former PayPal employees activated the domain name "YouTube.com." The first YouTube video followed soon after.
  • YouTube announced it will stop recommending "borderline content" — videos that misinform users in a harmful way. The platform has struggled to deal with extremist violent content and conspiracy videos.
  • The British comedian and Late Late Show host hit big with his star-studded carpool singalong videos. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Corden about how it all started — and singing with Justin Bieber.
  • Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource last week. The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than 100 videos yanked from the site. The reason: a music company accused him of copyright infringement for an instructional video on how to play a Rolling Stones song.
  • NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with KQED reporter Tonya Mosley about the latest from San Bruno, Calif., where a shooting took place at the YouTube headquarters Tuesday.
  • Rocket scientist and YouTube star, Destin Sandlin, got to interview President Obama. NPR's Rachel Martin asks Sandlin about what the two spoke about. Space, of course!
  • The monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria sing ancient Gregorian chants in their 12th-century church — and then post them to YouTube. Their technological savvy landed them a record deal, and now their album is storming the European charts and arriving in America. Father Karl Wallner talks to host Andrea Seabrook about balancing pop stardom with the religious life.
  • People watch 1 billion hours of video every day on YouTube. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dr. Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill about YouTube's impact on society.
  • A woman killed herself after shooting several people at YouTube's headquarters in California on Tuesday.
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