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YouTube launched in 2005 as a video sharing platform, and was acquired by Google (now Alphabet) in 2006. It has built an entire community of creators that run channels dedicated to topics like gaming, tech reviews, and beauty. It also houses news videos and entertainment such as music videos, movie trailers, and clips from late-night TV shows.

YouTube’s rapid growth has not been without problems. YouTubers typically make money from ads that run in front of their videos, but if they break the platform’s rules, their channels and videos can be demonetized. Executives and moderators have worked to combat harassment, misinformation, terrorist propaganda, hate content, and other abuse.

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Elon Musk certainly has a lot of ideas. Since making a fortune from PayPal in the original dotcom boom, he's taken over Tesla, pushing forward production of electric cars, and founded SpaceX, the rocket company that now flies plenty of NASA payloads. 

Two newer companies — the Boring Company, focused on digging holes for transit tunnels, and NeuraLink, which is developing brain-computer interfaces — also occupy his time. Then there's the Hyperloop, the high-speed land travel design he's encouraged others to develop. Somehow, this brash billionaire still has time to get himself into trouble on Twitter.

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Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and genius. The people I found by reading the comments under NASA YouTube videos are not. But can you tell the difference?


Who said it: Elon Musk, or a random YouTube commenter?

Who said it: Elon Musk, or a random YouTube commenter?

This could be more challenging than you think

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The Game Awards 2023: all of the biggest trailers and announcements

The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill

Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4

Google just launched a new AI, and has already admitted at least one demo wasn’t real

Geoff Keighley let video game developers down

More from this stream Verge Hack Week 2014

Our future government will work more like Amazon

The future of self-driving cars: welcome to Autocon 2035

In the future, we'll all be like my grandfather

These are the 23 most viral cats of all time