The tool, previously only available to Hollywood stars and some top YouTube creators, will allow these high-profile users to flag deepfakes or other AI-generated content that features their likeness.

The tool aims to protect users at the center of political discourse and identify AI-generated videos that resemble their appearance.

Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people.

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

A strange bug is affecting YouTube mobile app users, causing banner ads to stick permanently over the fullscreen videos.