YouTube may ‘break’ sharing on borderline videos to combat misinformation

YouTube is also looking at new ways to catch misinformation before it goes viral. What you need to know YouTube is considering new measures to deal with misinformation. The video-sharing platform plans to disable the share button or "break the link" on videos that it limits in recommendations. Users may also soon see an interstitial before they watch a "borderline video." YouTube is looking at new ways to tackle the misinformation challenge on its platform. As misinformation continues to spread widely, YouTube is looking at new ways to tackle the problem while preserving free expression on its platform. To catch new misinformation before it goes viral, YouTube is considering additional types of labels that will be added to a video or atop search results for major news events. These labels will warn viewers that there's a "lack of high-quality information." YouTube is also continuing to train its systems on new data by leveraging a more targeted mix of classifiers as well as ...
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