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YouTube is fighting conspiracy theories with ‘authoritative’ context and outside links
The Verge ^

Posted on 07/12/2018 8:09:51 AM PDT by MNDude

YouTube is adding “authoritative” context to search results about conspiracy-prone topics like the Moon landing and the Oklahoma City Bombing, as well as putting $25 million toward news outlets producing videos. Today, the company announced a new step in its Google News Initiative, a program it launched in March. The update is focused on reducing misinformation on YouTube, including the conspiracy theories that have flourished after events like the Parkland shooting.

This update includes new features for breaking news updates and long-standing conspiracy theories. YouTube is implementing a change it announced in March, annotating conspiracy-related pages with text from “trusted sources like Wikipedia...

(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...


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1 posted on 07/12/2018 8:09:51 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: MNDude

“Authoritative,” AKA globalist-approved.


2 posted on 07/12/2018 8:14:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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Another Leftist company committing suicide for the sake of Fake Social Justice.


3 posted on 07/12/2018 8:24:44 AM PDT by txrefugee
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More leftist scheming to try to push their ideology onto people who have been using youtube to escape that bs. It’s not as egregious as censoring people with points of view that differ from what they want to push, but it’s just as obvious.


4 posted on 07/12/2018 8:26:53 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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Eventually they will decide it’s easier to just stop allowing content they don’t like than it is to try to explain it away. Inevitable.


5 posted on 07/12/2018 8:31:49 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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Believe as FB does. No other opinions welcome.


6 posted on 07/12/2018 8:36:49 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: MNDude

And, their measure for the power of discernment and objectivity is.....?


7 posted on 07/12/2018 9:06:37 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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Oklahoma City?

So YouTube finally found John Doe#2 after all these years?

Cool! ;-)


8 posted on 07/12/2018 9:15:55 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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Wikipedia is an authoritative source—if you want to know the views of Intelligence Services around the world!


9 posted on 07/12/2018 9:16:44 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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Funny you should ask!
About 5 years ago, give or take 10, Howie Carr of the Boston Herald, mentioned an item in the suburb of Quincy, Mass., police blotter that a man many believe is No. 2, was arrested for public drunkenness
I never heard any disposition of the arrest..
No. 1 was found working as a baggage handler at Logan Airport on Sept. 11, 2001. He may still be there. I think No. 2 was also working at Logan then.
I think No. 1 was conspiring with Terry Nichols. No. 2 and McVeigh were just flunkies.


10 posted on 07/12/2018 10:32:23 AM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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