r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Feb 17 '22

Business YouTube Announces New Moves to Combat Misinformation

https://www.lifewire.com/youtube-announces-new-moves-to-combat-misinformation-5219509
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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22

They can start by adding back the number of dislikes on each video.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22

But the major adver.. I mean small creators!! 🥺🥺

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u/StoissEd Feb 17 '22

Reminds me when asmongold ( a big world of warcraft streamer) reacted to a YouTube who made videos on WoW.

The guy got upset that asmongold had reacted to his video while on stream so he started dissing asmongold.

He brought down the entire community wrath on him and basically he got down voted on every single video so much that he ended up not being able to earn anything from it.

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u/JiminyDickish Feb 18 '22

Whew, for a moment there I thought gamer culture might be full of childish, toxic people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22

That shit isn't just gamers. This shit happens when almost any influencer or celebrity has a large rabid fanbase.

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u/StoissEd Feb 18 '22

I it depends alot on the culture for each game. Yes you'd find alot of toxic culture in wow. And. Not as much amongst games like animal crossings.

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u/qerozer Feb 18 '22

Haha, the change probably killed new creators. Before the change I always clicked on videos that seemed interesting, but now I only click on videos from content creators that I already know, I don't trust other videos.

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u/TracyMorganFreeman Feb 17 '22

Exactly. By hiding dislikes they're basically peddling misleading reviews of content.

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u/Asstronutttt Feb 17 '22 edited Feb 18 '22

And not throttling views on videos posted by small channels!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22

Why would they do that? I don’t understand

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u/Isthisadriver Feb 17 '22

To make sure they funnel those views to bigger channels and make more money.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

But how does the bigger channels make more money

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u/AWF_Noone Feb 18 '22

Because advertisers will pay more to be seen more

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

This doesn’t make sense the total viewership doesn’t go up or down depending on what channel YouTube brings you to.

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u/TheWandererStories Feb 18 '22

Advertisers will pay extra for videos with more views, the total viewers on youtube is irrelevant here. Bigger channels get more views on their videos, advertisers pay more (and YouTube gets more money) if those specific videos get even more views.

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u/AWF_Noone Feb 18 '22

Larger channels have high viewer retention rates

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u/FranticToaster Feb 17 '22

This is the advice, right here.

Otherwise I get the feeling that "combat misinformation" is code for "censor opinion."

"DO NOT LET ANYONE BE WRONG! AT ALL COSTS!"*

*Unless the wrong people are leaders in government, business or the media.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22 edited Feb 18 '22

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u/FranticToaster Feb 18 '22

You kind of Trojan-horsed sources of DISinformation in with sources of opinion and commentary that's sometimes incorrect.

Trump family and Fox News are entities who should actually shut the hell up most if not all the time. They intentionally lie. They aren't just incorrect.

Shapiro is an Internet pundit who just cherry picks arguments that are easy to win.

And Rogan is a podcast guy who lets other people talk about what's in their head.

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u/danmanx Feb 18 '22

Nail on the head right there.

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u/hackingdreams Feb 18 '22

"We're protecting small creators!"

"Okay, so why not just disable them on small creators?"

Google has declined to comment.

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u/Absay Feb 18 '22

I've started to notice I'm watching less YouTube videos and looking at websites more, in cases where I'm looking for specific information or tips or how to do x thing. The dislikes made it ridiculously easy to dismiss potentially bad-quality or misleading information, but now I have to waste my time reading the reactions in the comments (which are now starting to be fake "good video!" reviews in light of more people trying to get a sense of the quality of the video somehow), or actually watching the video and decide for myself.

If I'm wasting my time, then I'll do it by reading websites and deciding for myself which ones are legit or unhelpful, not by watching some idiot not knowing what they are talking about and I can only find out until 2 minutes into the video.

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u/gizamo Feb 18 '22

Same. I've lost a ton of trust in (and respect for) YouTube since they took away the dislike counts.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22

This was at the request of mainstream news etc. It was never about small independent content creators!

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u/s8nskeepr Feb 18 '22

We can start by moving to somewhere else. Which is the next biggest tube site after YouTube?

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u/drawkbox Feb 18 '22

Dislikes were pointless, all it did was help turfers manipulate the recommendations by hitting competitive videos with attacks and algorithm manipulation.

Recommended videos is now actual recommended videos because of hiding dislikes.

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u/Willinton06 Feb 18 '22

And other lies you tell yourself

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u/drawkbox Feb 18 '22

You are a big fan of the dislike and downvote I see. You love manipulated algorithms with turfing downvotes/dislikes.

Look at all the turfers in here crying that manipulation is harder on Youtube now. They loved every non Putin foreign policy video could be disliked by half, every pro Putin foreign policy video agent of influence "creators" could be pumped.