YouTube will start showing links to fact-check articles to viewers in the US, part of its effort to tame the spread of misinformation on the world’s largest video site.
The feature will display snippets from select news publishers and organisations that follow standards from fact-checking bodies, the company said Tuesday. These links will appear above videos when people type in searches for certain topical claims, such as “covid and ibuprofen”.
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