Comment on YouTube wants to get you watching more news from ‘authoritative sources’ - The Verge

jet@hackertalks.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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”.

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• Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One would hope but that isn’t what makes them money.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ultimately, the timidity of the advertisers is going to drive youtube towards less controversial and less polarizing content.

      Witness the previous “adpocalypses” and the content policy responses.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’d probably filter out any too harsh content too, so that we can live in our little cotton insulated world’s…

    I mean they’ll decide what is “bad”, and that’s probably bad in itself.

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    • Sneptaur@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re relying solely on a platform like YouTube for your information, you’re not getting the full picture anyway.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey, you’re not sneaking off to Apple news or worse bing news eh!?!

        News nowadays is really a hassle.

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• between2boobies@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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