YouTube Rolls Out News Features, Working Group
In the early hours after major news events, YouTube will start putting short previews of news in its search results that link to the full article in an effort to provide more sources and context, Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan…
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and Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl blogged Monday. They said the Alphabet/Google affiliate will expand testing of features that make it easier to access local news via the YouTube app for TV screens, bringing it to more U.S. markets. Information from third parties such as Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica will start being displayed alongside videos "on a small number of well-established historical and scientific topics that have often been subject to misinformation, like the moon landing and the Oklahoma City Bombing," wrote the two: Initial members of a related working group include Vox Media, Brazilian radio network Jovem Pan and India Today.