Posted on 07/09/2018 10:34:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Google’s YouTube says it is taking several steps to ensure the veracity of news on its service by cracking down on misinformation and supporting news organizations.
The company said Monday it will make “authoritative” news sources more prominent, especially in the wake of breaking news events when misinformation can spread quickly.
At such times, YouTube will begin showing users short text previews of news stories in video search results, as well as warnings that the stories can change. The goal is to counter the fake videos that can proliferate immediately after shootings, natural disasters and other major happenings. For example, YouTube search results prominently showed videos purporting to “prove” that mass shootings like the one that killed at least 59 in Las Vegas were fake, acted out by “crisis actors.”
In these urgent cases, traditional video won’t do, since it takes time for news outlets to produce and verify high-quality clips. So YouTube aims to short-circuit the misinformation loop with text stories that can quickly provide more accurate information. Company executives announced the effort at YouTube’s New York offices.
Those officials, however, offered only vague descriptions of which sources YouTube will consider authoritative. Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan said the company isn’t just compiling a simple list of trusted news outlets, noted that the definition of authoritative is “fluid” and then added the caveat that it won’t simply boil down to sources that are popular on YouTube. …
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Satire?
;-)
CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, LA Times, NY Times, Boston Globe and others have been busted outright fabricating news items
forged memos
forged photos
forged gastank explosions
forged reports from Saddam’s Iraq to keep their Baghdad bureau
forges witnesses and quotes and forged reports shielding the Soviets’ gulags
forged “iraq war crime” photos
shall I go on?
So no more MSNBC, CNN and NBC on Youtube?
SPLC “approved”
I have to sign into yahoo to get my email. Before I click on the email link, the site is full of fake news videos and articles from the alphabet networks. It would be awesome if those would all disappear and be replaced by something reliable like Breitbert or Fox.
I wouldn’t trust what Youtube defines as “fake” news.
Well, Youtube wants to support “journalism” instead of news reporting, so guess what they’ll be shoveling at the public.
Oh Please! We all know which sources YouTube finds "authoritative". They all feature groveling and snorting libtard talking heads that read directly from the Progressive Socialist / Marxist playbook. The times when the general public would buy this tripe is quickly coming to an end.
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