YouTube launches new page that only shows videos from "authoritative" sources

Re:YouTube launches new page that only shows videos from "au... by 542458 on Thursday October 19, 2023 @09:42AM (#37942782)

Yes, thank you. And while you can definitely bias your reporting by only recording one side's accusations, that's not what happened here. As far as I can tell, most major news orgs' articles were updated as soon as Israel put out a statement.

Some would say that we should just wait for both sides to put out info, or wait for independent investigations before reporting anything, but that can take quite some time. On Sept 6 there was a missile strike in Ukraine that was initially attributed to Russia - but it took almost two weeks for investigations to find that it was likely a Ukrainian misfire.

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Re:YouTube launches new page that only shows videos from "au... by jasonlotito on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:43AM (#37944455)

> Some would say that we should just wait for both sides to put out info

I've seen people suggest that journalists should do the research themselves and report the facts. The assumption here is that the journalist should become the source, which flies in the face of journalistic integrity. Quite the opposite, the journalist should do some level of source verification, but I don't want the journalists themselves making the claims for news reports.

This is why media literacy is so important, and why it's evident it's a skill people lack these days.

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