Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
YouTube Suspends All Monetization in Russia, Blocks Kremlin-Backed Channels Worldwide
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital EditorYouTube has suspended all monetization programs for users in Russia — after previously halting ads in the country — given the ongoing Russian military assault on Ukraine, the video giant announced Friday.In addition, YouTube said it is now blocking access to YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media, including RT and Sputnik, across the globe after earlier blocking them from access across Europe. “This change is effective immediately, and we expect our systems to take time to ramp up,” YouTube said in a statement on Twitter.RT’s YouTube channel currently has 4.7 million subscribers, while Sputnik has 327,000.
Numerous other internet platforms have either blocked access to Russian state media content, are adding labels to identify it as such are have otherwise suppressed it, including Facebook parent Meta, Twitter, Spotify and TikTok.
According to YouTube, the platform also is now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates its policy banning content “denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events.
Since March 1, YouTube said, its teams have removed more than 1,000 channels and more than 15,000 videos for violating not only our hate speech policy, but also our policies around misinformation, graphic content and more.Concurrent with the other steps it is taking amid the Russian war on Ukraine, YouTube said it is working to connect people to “trusted news sources.”“So far, our breaking news and top news shelves on our homepage have received more than 17M views in Ukraine,” YouTube said.YouTube said that its teams “continue to closely monitor the situation, and are ready to take further action.
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