Vox

Vox is a left-leaning American news/opinion website and subsidiary of Vox Media, a mass media company Melissa Bell and Ezra Klein founded in 2014. Vox is known for its concept of explanatory journalism and its use of "card stacks" to define terms and provide context. Vox's YouTube channel creates live-action animated videos covering many topics. They have 10.5 million subscribers and 2.8 billion views as of April 2022. 
==History==
Ezra Klein joined Vox Media after leaving the Washington Post in January 2014. The site launched on April 6, 2014, with him as its editor-in-chief.
Vox fired Emmett Rensin in June 2016 after he spread controversy about Trump's tweets, later hiring Liz Plank as a political correspondent.
On September 29, 2017, Ezra shifted his position to Vox's editor-at-large, naming his deputy Lauren Williams as editor-in-chief.
==Controversy ==
In September 2018, a subsidiary of Vox called the Verge posted a guide for building a high-end custom gaming PC as a case study for the Streisand effect. PC enthusiasts and the tech community widely panned it, including tech YouTubers like Bitwit and ReviewTechUSA. In response, the Verge deleted the video. In February 2019, Vox Media started taking down these criticism and parody videos for copyright a few days after the Verge published an article about the abuse of copyright takedowns on YouTube for censorship. This perceived hypocrisy led to a massive uproar in the PC community came roaring back, leading to conflict escalation. The issue remains officially unresolved.
In October 2018, Vox uploaded a video criticizing the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Among their various points, they accused it of continuity clutter and handling crossovers poorly due to a perceived lack of stakes in the overall story. Their viewers heavily panned it, harshly criticizing Vox's interpretations of the Marvel and DC movies. YouTubers like Jay Exci, captainmidnight, and ComicBookCast2 made several response videos, accusing Vox of completely mishandling the MCU.
In December 2018, Vox received criticism from fans of PewDiePie for articles by reporter Aja Romano, including one alleging PewDiePie had ties to the alt-right and white supremacism. Romano has said she had received harassment on Twitter after posting content about PewDiePie.
In June 2019, StevenCrowder reacted to the Vox series Strikethrough, offending Carlos Maza. Maza said that Crowder's fans doxxed and harassed him after his copyright strike against Steven Crowder, despite Steven not encouraging such harassment. Crowder responded with a video where he declared war on Vox for suppressing competition. Four days later, YouTube responded that the language, though 'hurtful,' didn't violate its policies, and they would not remove it. This decision drew considerable criticism. The next day, YouTube demonetized Crowder and refused to resume ads for him until Crowder addressed "all of the issues." This event started the #VoxAdpocalypse movement.
Carlos and Vox's involvement with new YouTube guidelines formed the fourth wave of YouTube Adpocalypse. Several conservative channels such as Black Pigeon Speaks and The Golden One became demonetized. YouTube terminated three others, one being Norwegian musician survivalist writer and convicted felon Varg Vikernes. Many conservatives accused YouTube of liberal bias, while YouTubers like Styxhexenhammer666 and Ben Shapiro believed corporations like Vox wanted to quash competition.
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