YouTube Now Highlights 'Authoritative' Coronavirus Coverage On its Homepage (mashable.com) 35
YouTube has launched a news shelf on its homepage dedicated to coronavirus coverage. From a report: The content will initially be available in 16 countries, and the company says it will expand it to more countries in the future. YouTube announced the news on Twitter without giving any further details, such as the exact list of countries or the list of news outlets that are included in the program.
coronavirus clickbait (Score:2, Informative)
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This site is full of shithead narcissistic guys who program websites and do basic IT stuff. It is just catering to its ever declining base by convincing them all they are all gonna die. Meanwhile the majority of them never get close to other humans at all so have zero to worry about.
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That's not true, I meet plenty of people every day in Eorzea.
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we have yet to see any *news* about coronavirus - this is more mindless drivel and barely even counts as clickbait. what a waste this site has become...
Here is some:
The virus evolutionary tree using the actual data from WHO run through the same math as used for flu analysis and forecasting by the same team: https://nextstrain.org/ncov [nextstrain.org]
If you do not know how to interpret it (interesting, what are you doing on Slashdot then), here is the interpretation of the most interesting bits: https://www.fagain.co.uk/node/... [fagain.co.uk]
None of that is covered in the media and I am proud to be a NON-AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE. But hey, I have studied genetics long ago and I could
I find that highlight annoying (Score:2)
I'm capable of searching for what I want, thank you
They Thought of That (Score:3)
I'm capable of searching for what I want, thank you
Maybe in the good old days you were. Now if someone displeases YT's censors and commissars, there's a good chance that even if you know the exact title of the video you want, searching specifically for "<channel name> <video title>" still won't find it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
YouTube Becoming TV (Score:5, Insightful)
YouTube is doing its best to become TV, to be the gatekeeped broadcast media all over again. It's annoying since YouTube was built as the alternative to that - everyday people saying whatever crazy stuff everyday people say, and cat videos. But it turns out that everyday people have unapproved opinions. The horror.
I don't mind YouTube shoving "sources we think you should watch" into my recommended page. They gotta pay for the servers, and while that's a weird kind of advertisement, sure, whatever. But I don't need to see that "CDC Corona CDC" pop-up every 5 minutes. I don't need to see it at the bottom of every damn video. YouTube has crossed the line between adding their recommendation and constant screeching. Chill out YouTube, we get it.
People who are looking for the official data can find it very easily. People who think it's all a coverup for the shape-shifting reptoid invasion aren't going to care how often you repeat yourself YouTube. Shoving the official news in the faces of people who don't believe anything the government says doesn't accomplish anything. And we especially don't need to see that on videos unrelated to the virus because you can't write bots for shit. Escapism is important.
Where TF is it? (Score:2)
Not on MY YouTube homepage for sure.
Perhaps you could have used one of these strange new thingies called hyperlink or something.
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It was on mine. Just a bunch of links to MSNBC.
Garbage
What a joke. (Score:3)
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This Channel gets my vote:
https://www.youtube.com/channe... [youtube.com]
I can see he's got a spot on the page you linked :-)
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I didn't like how they buried videos under layers of JS junk, Nuke anything managed to nuke it though.
YouTube Not = News (Score:1)
Too many people already get their "news" from gossip sources. This is just going to make them more likely to believe/trust in those unreliable sources.
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UK Doctor vlog (Score:3)
I've been following this UK Doctor and he has a few video already about this already. One on the coronavirus himself and a couple about the preparations:
https://www.youtube.com/channe... [youtube.com]
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Well, of course a Time Lord would have the inside story...
Because authorities are infallible. (Score:3, Insightful)
And everything else is always wrong.
And we are hoplessly lost and clueless in even basic school-level logic, and never heard of the scientific method.
-- YouTube
So the who (Score:1)
Who is terrified of calling the Wuhan flu the Wuhan flu, like they do in Chinese media? The same one that denied human to human transmission? Who denied asymptomatic transfer? Who wouldn't call it a pandemic?
Yeah, no.
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According WHO's definition, "A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease." Thus, a single nation can't really declare a pandemic; only someone with a worldwide perspective can, like WHO, who did declare it a pandemic.
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I just got a call from the GHO and they say a single planet can't declare a pandemic.
Authoritative = Authoritarian (Score:2)
Maybe let people figure it out for themselves?
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There are an awful lot of people that equate news with Facebook, Twitter and anything else called 'social media'.
A US president that has problems with the truth worsens the situation and they are ready to believe anything thrown their way.
So when at least one of these sources of information tries to clean up all the bull about this pandemic that is being vented through the internet (and until a few days ago Fox news) it is a Good Thing.
Yes some people are able to find their way in th
Re: Authoritative = Authoritarian (Score:1)
Yeah, you're totally right bro, censorship is so cool! Baaaaaaaaa!
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This is not 'doing away' with certain unwelcome viewpoints but instead giving a more prominent place to generally accepted information.
Plugins the filter (Score:1)
I have a MSM plugin that filters out main stream media, i dont watch youtube to get pimped tv, i cut cable, i dont want youtube to be cable tv.
Also, using the pocket tube extension, I can put my favorite channels in groups. Cooking/Food in 1 group, Cars/Auto/Wheels in another, Tech/Electronic in another. Music talk and a Music video groups. I dont want google controlling me, I'm such a bad rebellious consumer...
Same goes with facebook and reddit, I use plugins to de-authoritarian the control me, I do w
Re: Plugins the filter (Score:1)
"Google needs to stop forcing its views"
But how would that advance Google's goal of worldwide oligarchy??
EU coronavirus mythbusting but not youtube (Score:2)
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/eeas-sp... [euvsdisinfo.eu]
Soooooo... (Score:1)
Thank goodness for Googlenazis! (Score:1)
Wow, we're so lucky to have Big Brother Google to tell us what to think! Everyone knows we're all too stupid to think for ourselves. Ideas are scaaaaaaaaary! But now we don't have to! Because we have a clique of wannabe-Nazis in Mountain View to tell us what we're allowed to read, watch, and write. Thank goodness! Baaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaaaaaa! We love you, Big Brother!!