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YouTube Will Put Disclaimers On State-Funded Broadcasts To Fight Propaganda (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: YouTube's latest strategy to fight the spread of misinformation involves putting a disclaimer on videos from certain news sources. The online video website announced it will start labeling videos posted by state-funded broadcasters to alert viewers that the content is, in some part, funded by a government source. YouTube will begin labeling videos today, and the policy extends to outlets including the US's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Russian government broadcaster RT. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, PBS videos will now have the label "publicly funded American broadcaster," while RT will have this disclaimer: "RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government." The new policy is YouTube's way of informing viewers about where the content they're watching is coming from, a piece of information often hidden or left unsought by the viewers themselves. "The principle here is to provide more information to our users, and let our users make the judgment themselves, as opposed to us being in the business of providing any sort of editorial judgment on any of these things ourselves," YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan told the WSJ.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, PBS videos will now have the label "publicly funded American broadcaster," while RT will have this disclaimer: "RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government."
Though mainstream media in the US aren't directly funded by the US government, they get favors from time to time. Otherwise how would one explain the fact that *all* mainstream media basically regurgitated the government's position in previous [unfortunate and unnecessary] wars?
These are wars that are continuing to some degree even as I write this. After causing chaos, mayhem, confusion in distant lands, the US basically stated, "It's not our problem."
Just ask the Europeans who now have to deal with the refugee influx by what our leaders caused with no checks from the media whatsoever!!!
yo momma's so big she's a nation-state
Are they saying there's a difference between government propaganda and corporate propaganda (advertising)? That's a bit off I would say...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
People don't trust CNN, MSNBC, etc because they lie fucking constantly
Funny thing is the kind of people who say that kind of thing seem to prefer Breitbart and even Infowars.
Which is ironic.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
They're all shit, the only difference is
And you're wronger than both put together.
Even if I concede the others are shit, Breirbart and Infowars are much, much worse.
Objectively.
When was the last time either of those two published a retraction or correction?
SJW n. One who posts facts.