Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by gfodor on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:39PM
(#20107004)
Most journalism is close enough to propaganda these days that the least they could do is open comments so that the public can correct the record.
Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by Faark on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:58PM
(#20107254)
If you look at the comment sections of actual propaganda sites... well, you won't see Breitbart comments "correct the record". Quite the opposite, they are an important part of the local echo chamber. The only good they can do is giving others an unfiltered view into the minds of those communities.
Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by rabidrat on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:01PM
(#20107298)
That is interesting, I wonder if we could use the level of disagreement in the comment sections to detect propaganda vs news sites.
Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by gfodor on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @07:23PM
(#20110096)
Certainly, but all other things equal without comments there's a reduced opportunity for alternative views to surface on the same page.
Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by creaghpatr on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:42PM
(#20107042)
Comments do add additional context, it's just a situation by situation basis of whether they are useful. HN comments tend to be useful, YT comments are occasionally useful but mostly garbage.
Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by dgjrhgi on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @04:02PM
(#20108531)
Is there any service that compiles relevant news(filtering out propaganda etc.). I would prefer an team of people doing the compile by manually going through various news sources and sending out the summary email to subscribers. That would be a huge time saver for me. I wouldn't milk paying money for that kind of service.
Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
by X6S1x6Okd1st on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @05:34PM
(#20109411)
That's the mission of most news providers.
I'm not sure which news sites you read but most of the ones I've seen count only as journalism in a very vague and abstract sense. The information is thin, the writing poor, and major important questions go unanswered and ignored. If there is indeed any point to following the news on a daily basis (and there is good evidence to suggest there is not), the quality of most new sources is atrocious enough that none of it is worth my time.
(The exception here is the occasional piece of very well done investigative journalism.)
But, in regard to comments, they do it for the same reason that Hacker News or any other site has a comments section: community engagement. This is not necessary a bad thing but it comes with the responsibility to _moderate_ the resulting community and almost every site drops the ball on this.