YouTube moves to stop election misinformation. But is it enough?

Get the Full StoryWith less than 40 days until the U.S. presidential election, YouTube has rolled out a number of new tools to deal with voting misinformation on the platform.

Will these new tools actually fix the problem of fake news on the world s biggest video website? Let's start with the good stuff.

In its announcement on authoritative voting information, YouTube focuses on updates made to its information panels feature. Last year, the company began rolling out information panels text prompts that automatically appear at the top of a page when a user searches for certain keywords linked with conspiracy theories and misinformation in order to provide fact-checking to its users. The feature finally launched in the U.S. in April. Read more...More about Youtube, Election, Misinformation, 2020 Presidential Election, and 2020 Election

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