YouTube plans to roll out new measures to combat the spread of disinformation and fake news by adding useful links to Wikipedia and other articles under conspiracy theory videos on the platform. — AFP Relaxnews
YouTube is littered with extreme and misleading videos, and the company has been criticised for not doing enough to limit the dreck. But one place the Google unit has managed to clean up is YouTube’s homepage.
Behind the scenes, Google has deployed artificial intelligence software that analyses reams of video footage without human help, deciphers troubling clips and blocks them from the homepage and home screen of the app. It’s internal name is the "trashy video classifier", according to three people familiar with the project.
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