YouTube improves its additional information panels
The video platform assured that this improvement will seek to obtain data from reliable sources for verification of searches
The YouTube video platform has extended its additional information panels, with which it is possible to obtain data from reliable sources to verify searches related to current affairs such as the coronavirus.
This feature, which was already available since last year in Brazil and India, is now also available in searches made from the United States, as the video platform announced in a statement.
The information panels aim to address the “disinformation that appears quickly along with the information cycle, where unsubstantiated claims and uncertainty about facts are common,” the company explained.
In this way, when searching on a current topic, YouTube panels show users additional context on the topic collected by a dozen external US fact checkers such as The Dispatch, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact and The Washington Post Fact Checker.
These information panels come from institutions such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, Wikipedia or, for health-related searches such as Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other local health authorities, for example.
K. Tovar
Source: dpa
