Fact Check: Utube

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After the November election, Reuters identified several YouTube channels making money from ads and memberships that were amplifying debunked accusations about voting fraud. read more · Last month, a group of Democratic senators asked YouTube to commit to removing content containing false or misleading information about the 2020 election outcome and the upcoming Senate run-off elections in Georgia.

After the November election, Reuters identified several YouTube channels making money from ads and memberships that were amplifying debunked accusations about voting fraud. Last month, a group of Democratic senators asked YouTube to commit to removing content containing false or misleading information about the 2020 election outcome and the upcoming Senate run-off elections in Georgia.

In this photo illustration, the YouTube website is displayed on October 10, 2006, following Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of the platform. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Europe ...

Google bought the site in November ... which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. YouTube allows users to upload videos, view them, rate them with likes and dislikes, share them, add videos to playlists, report, make comments on videos, and subscribe to other users. The slogan "Broadcast Yourself" used for several years and the reference ...

Exact counts remain available to channel operators inside YouTube Studio. On November 11, 2021, after testing out this change in March of the same year, YouTube announced it would start hiding dislike counts on videos, making them invisible to viewers. The company stated the decision was in response to experiments which confirmed that smaller YouTube creators were more likely to be targeted in dislike brigading and ...

By tracking both logged-in accounts and unique device identifiers, the platform provides a comprehensive view of its massive global footprint. As of mid-2026, YouTube commands a monthly active user (MAU) base exceeding 2.70 billion users worldwide.

As of 2026, Youtube has 2.83B users with 340M of them accessing the platform daily. Know more usage & financial stats of the platform in this post.

Note: The above list is dynamic, and the number of subscribers changes every day. YouTube got 28.39 billion traffic in April 2026. This is 3.12% decline from March 2026, when it had 29.31 billion visits.