Saturday, September 29, 2018

YouTube now suggesting independent information on misinformation videos

As has been noted in many places, Youtube some time ago began marking Voice of America, RT News, BBC, teleSUR etc. as government funded broadcast mediums.

I just noticed something on Youtube now, although in my research it seems to have been going on since at least early August, that Youtube is now linking to "authoritative" sources for some topical subjects. If you look to see why you get this click on "Why am I seeing this?" it links here - https://ift.tt/2xURnhc . That page says "Note: This feature is currently available only in the United States."

Here are searches that make it pop up on Youtube (sometimes it does not pop up until you click on the video):

  space landing hoax
  global warming hoax
  holocaust hoax
  aids hiv hoax
  sandy hook hoax

Wondering what other phrases make this pop up?

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