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YouTube Is Fighting Conspiracy Theories With 'Authoritative' Context and Outside Links (theverge.com)
In an effort to reduce misinformation on YouTube, the video-sharing website will be adding "authoritative" context to search results about conspiracy-prone topics, as well as putting $25 million toward news outlets producing videos. YouTube made the announcement today as part of a new step in its Google News Initiative, a journalism-focused program that aims to help publishers earn revenue and combat fake news. The Verge reports: 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 and Encyclopedia Britannica." And in the hours after a major news event, YouTube will supplement search results with links to news articles, reasoning that rigorous outlets often publish text before producing video.
YouTube is also funding a number of partnerships. It's establishing a working group that will provide input on how it handles news, and it's providing money for "sustainable" video operations across 20 markets across the world, in addition to expanding an internal support team for publishers.
YouTube is also funding a number of partnerships. It's establishing a working group that will provide input on how it handles news, and it's providing money for "sustainable" video operations across 20 markets across the world, in addition to expanding an internal support team for publishers.
TFA shows that with breaking news there is a little warning saying that details may change. A search for "moon landing" uses a snippet from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Seems like they have thought this one through. It's very conservative.
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So, now we need to update the old Russian saying
""there's no truth in Pravda, and no You in YouTube"
Let people learn when they screw up
Our last election, and even current reporting, showed that a lot of people do not learn, and even the ones that do end up learning too late. If Google can do something to flag obviously false reports as what they are, then I say more power to them -- it'll be doing us a service.
Even if they take things that are merely probably false or highly spun and supply a few links to what reputable sources say about the issue, that'd help keep people more informed and outside of their bubble.
I don't like having one company be an arbiter of truth either, but... if people can't do it for themselves, who is going to do it? Traditional news agencies have been unable to counter this round of nonsense, and in some cases are contributing to it.
Considering that media matters has a long history of "quote mining" aka manufacturing news & outrage, lying through omission, and pushing political agendas despite it's classification status. You're simply ignorant, and are happily defending a company that's just as bad.
I enjoyed the "white supremacy conservatives" bit. Get that racism and bigotry out early, fly that flag. It's doing a bang up job for the democrats and progressives. When you finish frothing at the mouth, you can sit down and read just how dirty of an organization it really is.
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The reason "fake news" can thrive is because MSM is so constantly horseshit that people correctly distrust it. The problem is that the replacements often have lower quality and reliability. The answer is to bludgeon MSM into shape. Ban CNN's account for a week when they post a bullshit story, and this will be resolved pretty quickly, because it's treating the cause. What Youtube is proposing here is treating the symptoms.
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Oh I see you seem to think 13 twitter trolls and internet meme's corrupted people's minds so as not to vote for Hillary Clinton. Is that your take....
So who exactly watches and corrects traditional news agencies when they spew lies like NBC did when NBC said Jill Stein had a show on RT....NBC NEVER corrected the lie.
I love how you trot out a book by a white supremacist hack who beat the "benghazi whee" tinfoil hat nonsense to death and derailed her own career by making crap up repeatedly, as your "source".
I'm amused that you're continuing to double down on your racism and bigotry. If that source is so terrible, why don't you pick it up and dispute it. I'll wait. I'll give you say 110 pages in and pick whatever you want.
But hey, that stuff must sell in the trailer park.
Oh boy, tripling down on the bigotry. What a beautiful face of modern progressiveness.
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The reason this is bad because currently the "authoritative" sources are actually incredibly biased, manufacture stories, and often hide information to further an agenda. They understand that if you control the narrative, you can manufacture a reality, or at least keep compliant people invested in such a narrative.
For example, you might yell tinfoil hate but here are a few off the top of my head:
Dan Rather, anchor long time CBS anchor, forced to resign in disgrace for manufacturing anti-conservative news http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBI...
Funny if you read the NY times and other articles attempting to pretend this was a normal stepping down
Brian Williams, NBC making false claims https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
NPR admitting press is biased and making up stories https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/...
If i need, I can go on. The point being it is easy to paint others with pejoratives like "tin foil hat" while failing to even consider much that you believe is likely from tainted perspective. Many people rightly fear that google (aka youtube) are censoring opinions that poke holes in their world view. Fake-news is more about people who disagree, not with people posting things that are untrue.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
The person who won does not matter to my post. There is evidence showing that regardless of who you were voting for, you were being targeted. Some of it was more obvious than others, but people on all sides of the political spectrum -- me included -- failed to filter out some of the spin coming their way.
Stop jumping to conclusions with divisive outrage. It's what they wanted. There's no room for pride here.
Of course there are government conspiracies that don't come out until later. For example, there may be a conspiracy for the Trump Administration to collude with Russia to break up NATO and sow discord amongst Western Allies - But we just don't know yet - And may never know.
There may be a conspiracy for the Heritage Foundation to select the next Supreme Court Judge. But again, we don't know.
However, there are huge areas that are pretty cut-and-dry.
When Trump says the USA has a trade deficit with Canada, that's a lie that's easily disproven with facts. When Trump says "I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13 & clean out the toughest of situations." that's a lie that is easily disproven with facts.
That's the sort of thing we're taking about here when it comes to fact-checking.