- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2379225 (!google@lemdro.id)
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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.
Youtube is so fucking captured by money its absurd.
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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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!
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”.
As much as I despise CNN and NYtimes, I have to agree that they’re miles better than many of their peers, and while flawed they’re usually factually on point. I just wish they weren’t as easily swayed by owners and institutions who have vested interest in which stories are run, and which aren’t.
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.
One would hope but that isn’t what makes them money.
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.
