YouTube’s product manager, Neal Mohan, said the company was actively targeting misinformation, i.e. amid the COVID-19 pandemic and had noticed that video intake from “authorized sources” increased to 110% in India between January and March 2020. .
“… Locating that balance between an open platform and our network guidelines, designed for each and every one, is a verbal exchange topic for us every day… Over the past few years, we have worked hard to invest in the policies, resources and products needed for the YouTube network,” he said.
Mohan added that his paintings have focused on 4 pillars: violent content, expanding authorized content, reducing the spread of boundary content, and rewarding trusted creators, the 4Rs of responsibility.
“… the intake of marginal content or destructive disinformation videos resulting from our recommendations is well below 1% and we are working to further reduce this problem,” he said.
Mohan said YouTube updated its hate and harassment policies last year to temporarily remove content that violates its policies.
“We are also careful to restrict the spread of incorrect information related to coronavirus on our site. These efforts are based on our paintings to restricted content recommendations (content that is approaching but does not exceed the limit of violating our Community Rules”), he said. .
The company has 24-hour canopy, “Follow the Sun”, and those groups through time zones, canopy in other languages and have other experience spaces.
“… ingesting content from authorized sources on our platform, i.e. videos from authorized sources, higher up to 110% in India in the first 3 months of 2020, basically because users come to YouTube, to get the maximum applicable data they can find about the crisis,” he said.
Last year, YouTube introduced fact-checking data panels in India, the first country where such a feature was introduced. These “data panes” report erroneous data and provide accurate fact-checking data through fact-checking organizations.
Collecting authorized data and providing users with appropriate context reduces content that violates YouTube policies, Mohan said.
Since its launch, there have been more than three hundred billion impressions on its data dashboards worldwide.
“We have also updated our policies to remove erroneous medical data about COVID. We consulted with the global and local fitness government as we expanded those policies and updated them to keep up with science-10 updates in the last two months alone,” he said.
These policies prohibit things like saying that the virus is a hoax or selling medically unfounded remedies rather than seeking remedies and YouTube has been undone from thousands of videos under those policies.
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