It turns out that waiting for actual facts and reports to create your informational video takes longer than having a "false flag" video pre-made and then playing ad-libs with any disasters that pop up so you can grab those sweet sweet payouts from advertising and push your stupid "health" pills on your website.

A few days is not enough time for due diligence, and any info should be considered with heavy skepticism right now.

Stop expecting algorithmic search result order to be "true". It would be far more worrying if Google were that good and filtered the news in such a fine grain.

You would need millions of people to filter all of the video that Google uploads per day. Even then, it would be hard to "make sure it's not a false flag video". That itself is pretty subjective even if it is obvious to you and everyone you know.

Also, trying to update videos with factual information vs false information is also hard.

The answer is for individuals to learn to be critical of the things that they watch. Period. There is no other way. Putting it in the hands of someone else is paving the road to tyranny.

It's problematic that there's nothing clearly classifying such videos as speculative fiction. Sure, it's obvious to intelligent people, but what about the more gullible among us?

In the past there was a combination of latency in the press and the barriers of access to publishing. Today there's neither, yet the informational impacts of this unmoderated noise are as real as ever.

It's concerning, but maybe sites like YouTube could do a better job of highlighting such channels with a record of spreading propaganda without resorting to censorship, rather than simply displaying popularity (subscriber) stats. How about an accuracy rating?