YouTube is planning on combatting misinformation on the platform by enabling commenters to contribute compose circumstance .
The new experimental feature herald today appears alike to how community notes enables X ( formerly have it away as Twitter ) lector to add linguistic context to tweet , which is rated as helpful or not by the community .
YouTube say the idea is to “ render relevant , timely , and easy - to - realize context on videos ” and that a special identification number of users will be ask round to conduce initially .
Google enounce examples could include “ distinction that clarify when a song is meant to be a parody , point out when a Modern version of a Cartesian product being look back is available , or get viewers know when Old footage is mistakenly portrayed as a current event . ”
Google says it will apply a third - party auditor to assess the effectiveness of the notes , which in turn will help to school Google ’s system to do the job .
In ablog post , Google excuse how the newfangled system will work : “ Notes will appear publicly under a television if they ’re found to be broadly helpful . mass will be call for whether they recall a note is “ helpful , ” “ jolly helpful , ” or “ unhelpful ” and why – for example , whether it cite mellow - tone source or is written understandably and neutrally .
“ From there , we ’ll use a bridging - based algorithm to consider these ratings and determine what notes are published . ”
Initially they ’ll appear underneath telecasting in the United States in English , but we can take over they ’ll be more broadly rolled out if the original proves a achiever .
view that , historically , YouTube commenters have n’t been the most reliable people or well-disposed people on the internet , those third - company auditors will have their employment rationalise out .
