YouTube to invest $25mn in countering fake news
6 years, 8 months ago

YouTube to invest $25mn in countering fake news

India TV News  

Video sharing platform YouTube has announced that it will invest $25 million to fight against fake news, especially for the urgent coverage of breaking news. YouTube, which is owned by Google, said on Monday that this investment will be part of the Google News Initiative, first introduced in March by the tech giant to help the media and to deal with fake news, reports Efe news. Beginning in the coming weeks, when YouTube users in the US search for videos on breaking news, they will see short excerpts of the news as well as the links to different media. "We remain committed to working with the journalism community to build a more sustainable video ecosystem for news organizations," said YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan and YouTube's Chief Business Officer, Robert Kyncl.

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YouTube at 20: The video platform transformed screen entertainment. Now it could change a lot more
1 month, 1 week ago

YouTube at 20: The video platform transformed screen entertainment. Now it could change a lot more

Salon  

The Peabody Awards recognized YouTube in 2008, a little over three years after Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim launched it on Feb. 14, 2005. I remember this because I was on the board that debated whether it was too early to award a website that, as former NBC anchor Brian Williams put it at that year’s Peabody ceremony, …

YouTube paid over $70 billion to creators in last three years: CEO Neal Mohan
1 year, 1 month ago

YouTube paid over $70 billion to creators in last three years: CEO Neal Mohan

The Hindu  

More than three million channels are in the YouTube Partner Program, which provides ways to earn money on YouTube, as the company paid over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media companies over the last three years, wrote Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube, in a blog post on Tuesday. “With generative AI coming in, YouTube will develop new ways of …

YouTube Shorts Now Gets 50 Billion Views Daily: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
2 years, 1 month ago

YouTube Shorts Now Gets 50 Billion Views Daily: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai

News 18  

YouTube Shorts, Google’s answer to TikTok, is now averaging over 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion that was last reported, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced. Together with our YouTube Primetime channel subscriptions and YouTube TV, we have good momentum here,” Pichai said during the analysts’ call late on Thursday. In December, the National Football League …

Six YouTube channels are peddling fake news, says PIB
2 years, 2 months ago

Six YouTube channels are peddling fake news, says PIB

The Hindu  

The Press Information Bureau’s fact-check unit has detected over one hundred videos uploaded on six YouTube channels that monetised “fake news”, and had garnered more than 50 crore views. The six YouTube channels, Nation TV, Samvaad TV, Sarokar Bharat, Nation 24, Swarnim Bharat and Samvaad Samachar, were allegedly working in a coordinated manner and spreading false information in the country. …

‘Peddling fake news’: I&B ministry exposes 6 YouTube channels
2 years, 2 months ago

‘Peddling fake news’: I&B ministry exposes 6 YouTube channels

Hindustan Times  

The fact-check unit of the Union information and broadcasting ministry on Thursday busted around six YouTube channels for allegedly spreading false information in the country. In a six-series Twitter thread, the PIB fact-check unit released several evidences to prove these channels' attempts to spread fake news. Check out the list of channels here: Channels Subscribers Nation TV 5.57 lakh Samvaad …

Govt asks YouTube to take down three channels for spreading fake news
2 years, 3 months ago

Govt asks YouTube to take down three channels for spreading fake news

India TV News  

The government on Wednesday asked YouTube to take down three channels for making false and sensational claims about various public welfare initiatives and spreading fake news. The three channels were declared as peddlers of fake news by the Press Information Bureau Fact Check Unit on Tuesday. "The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has directed YouTube to take down the three …

PIB’s fact-check unit detects three YouTube channels spreading fake news
2 years, 3 months ago

PIB’s fact-check unit detects three YouTube channels spreading fake news

The Hindu  

The fact-check unit of the Press Information Bureau has detected three YouTube channels which were allegedly circulating fake news pertaining to the Supreme Court and the top Constitutional functionaries. “This is the first time when PIB has exposed entire YouTube channels as against individual posts on social media spreading false claims,” said the Ministry. “Examples include fake news such as …

Google is making money from channels sharing fake news and spreading hate: How banning YouTube channels does only half the job
2 years, 7 months ago

Google is making money from channels sharing fake news and spreading hate: How banning YouTube channels does only half the job

Op India  

On August 18, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said that it had banned seven Indian and one Pakistan-based YouTube channel under IT Rule 2021. So far, the Government of India has banned over 102 YouTube channels and their accounts on social media platforms for spreading fake, misleading, and anti-India content since December 2021. It is noteworthy that apart from …

YouTube scales back original programming
3 years, 2 months ago

YouTube scales back original programming

LA Times  

Susanne Daniels, YouTube’s global head of originals, inside the YouTube sound stage at the Spruce Goose Hangar in Los Angeles in 2019. YouTube, long known for its user-generated videos, began paying for Hollywood productions and launched shows including “Cobra Kai,” a spinoff of 1984’s hit movie “The Karate Kid;” and series that highlighted the video giant’s stars like Liza Koshy …

An Open Letter to YouTube’s CEO From the World’s Fact-Checkers
3 years, 2 months ago

An Open Letter to YouTube’s CEO From the World’s Fact-Checkers

The Quint  

January 12, 2022 Ms. Susan Wojcicki, It’s been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started. As an international network of fact-checking organizations, we monitor how lies spread online — and everyday, we see that YouTube is one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide. And given that a large proportion of views on YouTube come from …

YouTube has gone from Hollywood pariah to partner. Meet the executive who led the change
4 years, 2 months ago

YouTube has gone from Hollywood pariah to partner. Meet the executive who led the change

LA Times  

When Kelly Merryman arrived at YouTube six years ago, the dust had just cleared on a contentious $1-billion lawsuit with Viacom that had dragged on for years. “There was more trust that needed to be built,” said Merryman, YouTube’s vice president of content partnerships. bringing the creativity of an executive who understands what it is we’re trying to create.” Partnerships …

YouTube to invest in educational content, creators
6 years, 5 months ago

YouTube to invest in educational content, creators

India TV News  

Google-owned YouTube has announced an investment of $20 million in educational content and creators to expand its initiative to support people across the world in sharing knowledge and pursuing learning on the platform. YouTube said on Monday that it was creating a new Learning Fund programme to support creators who make some of the best learning content on YouTube, the …

The Challenge of Making YouTube a Better Place
55 years, 2 months ago

The Challenge of Making YouTube a Better Place

Wired  

Susan Wojcicki has a difficult job. But the company she helms is very different than the YouTube that launched in 2005, when the mission was “Broadcast Yourself.” In recent years, and particularly since the 2016 election in the US, the service has found itself teeming with trolls and bad information. “It’s really valuable, but we have to marry that with …

YouTube brings a major overhaul to its news section to fight misinformation
6 years, 8 months ago

YouTube brings a major overhaul to its news section to fight misinformation

Firstpost  

The breaking news page will also have a reminder to the user saying ‘Story still developing’. In a bid to crackdown on fake news and videos which have often stirred tense situations worldwide, YouTube has come up with tools to prevent misinformation. While the Top News appears in the News section, Breaking News appears on YouTube’s homepage. It is also …

YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly views from registered users, which is a clear indicator of our toxic dependence on social media
6 years, 10 months ago

YouTube has 1.8 billion monthly views from registered users, which is a clear indicator of our toxic dependence on social media

Firstpost  

It is strange how even though problems with social media channels such as YouTube and Facebook are many, our toxic dependence on them remains ever strong. Google-owned YouTube ’s CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the video platform has 1.8 billion registered users viewing the channel every month. According to The Verge major milestones for YouTube were when it struck 41 …

Rupert Murdoch seeks to end Google’s ad hegemony after YouTube boycott
7 years, 10 months ago

Rupert Murdoch seeks to end Google’s ad hegemony after YouTube boycott

Live Mint  

New York/San Francisco: Google’s pain may be Rupert Murdoch’s gain. He wants to “choke the money supply to people spreading content like this.” News Corp. is the latest company seeking to capitalize on the advertiser boycott of Google’s YouTube. WPP Plc CEO Martin Sorrell said recently that clients of his company, the world’s largest ad agency, spend most of their …

YouTube sees money in gaming-video eyeballs
10 years, 11 months ago

YouTube sees money in gaming-video eyeballs

Firstpost  

To imagine how YouTube might one day become a money-spinner for content producers, consider the power of the irreverent video gamer and online star PewDiePie over his young, free-spending audience. “It’s incredible that YouTube personalities are coming up … and I think it can only grow.” PewDiePie’s uncanny trendsetting talent highlights the potential that content related to video games holds …

YouTube now serving videos to 1 billion people
12 years ago

YouTube now serving videos to 1 billion people

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — YouTube says more than 1 billion people are now visiting its online video site each month to watch everything from zany clips of cute kittens to sobering scenes of social unrest around the world. YouTube crossed the 1 billion threshold five months after Facebook Inc. said its online social network had reached that figure for the first …

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists
12 years, 8 months ago

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists

Firstpost  

A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the site. It found …

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists
12 years, 8 months ago

YouTube: A mating ground for media and citizen journalists

Firstpost  

A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the site. It found …

Forbidden in YouTube deal
12 years, 8 months ago

Forbidden in YouTube deal

The Independent  

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