Category: fact check

YouTube’s fact checking linked the Notre Dame fire to 9/11

Post author By Randall
Post date April 15, 2019
Categories In 9/11, fact check, fact checking, fake news, gear, Google, Internet, notre dame, services, Tech, wikipedia, Youtube

[ad_1] A YouTube spokesperson didn’t directly explain the cause to CNBC, but said that the company sometimes “make[s] the wrong call” with its algorithms. The incident underscores YouTube’s ongoing issues with automation. While the site needs algorithms to moderate the massive volumes of content uploaded every day, it’s not prepared to handle every possible situation […]

YouTube adds fact checks to search results on sensitive topics

Post author By Randall
Post date March 7, 2019
Categories In business, controversial, fact check, fact checking, gear, Google, India, Internet, Politics, Tech, Youtube
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[ad_1] “As part of our ongoing efforts to build a better news experience on YouTube, we are expanding our information panels to bring fact checks from eligible publishers to YouTube,” a spokesperson from YouTube told Engadget. “We are launching this feature in India and plan to roll this out in more countries as time goes […]