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Do you consider YouTube a news source?

• denydenydeny123 5y ago
  YouTube today and for the last few years engages in strong censorship and in no way represents diversity of free ideas. I would expect YouTube only to report honestly (as a news source) for things align with it's commonly held beliefs.
  • lobf 5y ago
    YouTube doesn't "report" anything. They host videos that other people create. Nothing there is necessarily "endorsed" by YouTube, and there's not even an implied agreement to only upload newsworthy or even good-faith or non-invented videos to the platform. You should only trust uploads from actual news organizations.
    • denydenydeny123 5y ago
      This is demonstrably false. YouTube endorses everything it does not censor. edit: And you should not put blind trust in any "news" organization either. Every observation deserves your full cognition to figure out what is plausible, consistent, implausible, inconsistent, let alone "true" or "false".
      • lobf 5y ago
        YouTube doesn't endorse things that are in violation of their TOS, regardless of someone's ability to evade a censor for whatever reason. And yeah, sure, everything should be judged on it's merits, however there's simply not enough time in the day to independently verify all facts. It's much easier and generally reliable to start with the mainstream news sources like NPR, who we can generally assume to be trustworthy.