Kazan teen gunman leaves 7 children, others dead

 

Residents in the Volga city of Kazan have begun laying flowers for the victims of a shooting; that left at least nine dead and more than a dozen injured at School No. 175. A 19-year-old former student has since been detained.

Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of the majority Muslim Russian region of Tatarstan, of which Kazan is the capital; has declared Wednesday to be a day of mourning in honor of those who lost their lives.

Tatarstan’s regional President Rustam Minnikhanov,

Meanwhile, YouTube announced Tuesday a $100 million fund that will pay the most popular creators on its nascent TikTok competitor, Shorts. 

“The Shorts Fund is just the first step in our journey to build a long-term monetization model for Shorts on YouTube;” the company said in a blog post.

It added that the fund will be launched in the coming months.

The fund comes as Google-owned YouTube tries to grow its user and creator base for its short-form video product; which is the company’s answer to mobile-first social media competitors like TikTok, Snap and Instagram’s Reels.

YouTube is the latest to use a designated creator fund to try and court influencers on its mobile platform.

In its first-quarter earnings report, Google-parent Alphabet said YouTube brought in $6.01 billion in advertising revenue during the quarter.