YouTube wants to get you watching more news from ‘authoritative sources’ - The Verge
YouTube wants to get you watching more news from “authoritative sources”
cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2379225 (!google@lemdro.id)
I'd hazard that YouTube consider as "authoritative sources" only right-wing, billionaire-owned news media conglomerates. Thanks, but no thanks
Lol which moron downvoted you? NO I LIKE MY BILLIONAIRE PROPAGANDA KEEP THE LIES AND OUTRAGE COMING
lol let the billionaire bootlickers downvote all they want... it's not like Lemmy upvote points have any value anyway :)
You can click on leftist content and you get random videos in the suggested videos. You click on anything near the center or right wing: "Here are some more videos on hating women, lgbtqia+, people of color, immigrants etc... OH! Nearly forgot! Here is a video of a piece of shit guy laughing at and doxxing disabled people!"
They push you right down the fascist rabbit hole...
Don’t forget the 37 random ads interspersed throughout…
Ministry of Truth
Ahhh, post modern "there is no truth".
Just because CNN has flaws doesn't mean it's not a better source of information than "louder with crowder".
Organizations that have standards and make reasonable attempts to be accurate should be promoted over "Dave's rage blog".
It’s probably better in the long run. Extremism is linked with violence (more from the right than the left, but) and YouTube is a global platform. It’s likely they will be trying to push more moderate content that gets the facts right over sensational opinion.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Youtube is so fucking captured by money its absurd.
Ugh, all authoritive sources are owned by right wingers, just some are overtly stupid and other ones are vauge centerist trying to convince us problems don't exist and wishing we would stop caring about trans people.
Not the public broadcasters!
What is even the point of YouTube then?
Because it sure as hell isn't about hosting user content anymore.
I mean for makeup tutorials by all means but for news? We've seen what happens when people get their news entirely from tiny bespoke sources and it's Qanon.
YouTube shouldn't host any news or political content at all then.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It also plans to spend $1.6 million to promote the creation of news content for its shortform Shorts service.
According to Google, the new watch page experience will initially roll out on mobile in around 40 countries and will expand to its desktop and living room interfaces in the future.
Meanwhile, the Google-owned video platform is also pledging to spend $1.6 million to promote the creation of shortform Shorts news content with over 20 organizations across 10 countries.
Meta has made it clear that it doesn’t plan to actively court or promote news content on Threads.
More recently, he added that Threads “won’t proactively recommend news content to people who don’t seek it out.”
Under his leadership, X no longer shows headlines on articles shared on the platform and has dismantled the system that verified journalists.
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Then why do they still shove Prager U down my throat? Absolutely ridiculous.
Seriously. I inevitably get all of the right-wing questionable sources as recommendations each time.
Oh but PragerU is now recognised in Florida and will be permitted in schools!