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"Mrs Wojcicki added YouTube had seen a 75% increase in demand for news from "authoritative" sources." Who ??? who in its right mind is watching youtube for an

• marcoperaza 7y ago
  Maybe I'm imagining it, but I've noticed that it's difficult to find user-generated current-events content on Youtube. The search results are dominated, artificially it feels, by clips from the major broadcasters and news agencies. User-created content is pushed down. I guess that's what preferring "authoritative" sources looks like, and I wonder if people are just "choosing" ("demanding") what the search results have been rigged to give them.
  • rodiger 7y ago
    Or if those are initially organically selected and then pushed further by the algorithm. Likely a combination of real preference + manufactured
    • marcoperaza 7y ago
      I should have added that it's definitely very different from how it was four years ago.
• v0tary 7y ago
  Me. All of my Canadian news broadcasters stream on YouTube and cover covid related news both live and recorded content. I use YouTube because I will not pay for cable service just to watch the news. I can see why they want to remove bad content, but a single authority is very bad.