YouTube brings fact-check feature to US
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Aiming to slow the spread of disinformation, YouTube said Tuesday that this will be the case Extend the fact review feature to the search results of the US audience. The visual control panel feature was introduced in India and Brazil last year and appears at the top of a YouTube search results list when a user appears to be looking for news sources.
According to YouTube, in order to trigger the visual verification of the facts of the website, a relevant article to verify the facts must already be available from an “authorized publisher”. The image is also only displayed based on how a user browses the site.
“Fact checks only appear when people are looking for a specific claim. For example, if someone searches for” Has a Los Angeles tornado hit “, you may see a relevant fact check article, but if they search for a more general query like” Tornado, “they can’t, “the company said in a blog post.
Today we’re expanding our fact-checking information fields to the United States. In fast-moving news cycles, these panels highlight articles with fact checks on the search results so that viewers can make their own informed decision about what is included in the news. https://t.co/MCHTkOhI3e
– YouTubeInsider (@YouTubeInsider) April 28, 2020
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