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"Mrs Wojcicki added YouTube had seen a 75% increase in demand for news from "authoritative" sources."

Who ??? who in its right mind is watching youtube for an "authoritative" source ??

Maybe I'm imagining it, but I've noticed that it's difficult to find user-generated current-events content on Youtube. The search results are dominated, artificially it feels, by clips from the major broadcasters and news agencies. User-created content is pushed down. I guess that's what preferring "authoritative" sources looks like, and I wonder if people are just "choosing" ("demanding") what the search results have been rigged to give them.

Or if those are initially organically selected and then pushed further by the algorithm. Likely a combination of real preference + manufactured

I should have added that it's definitely very different from how it was four years ago.

Me. All of my Canadian news broadcasters stream on YouTube and cover covid related news both live and recorded content. I use YouTube because I will not pay for cable service just to watch the news.

I can see why they want to remove bad content, but a single authority is very bad.

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