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YouTube wants to get you watching more news from ‘authoritative sources’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

News nowadays is really a hassle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I do use Apple News because I use Apple products. It’s a nice window into the newspapers of today.