I've been waiting for someone, anyone to curb the extremists influence on social media. Seems YouTube is taking the problem head on by redirecting keyword searches to truths about the search rather than only the radical point of view. Bravo Youtube, Jigsaw and Moonshot CVE for creating the Redirect Method
h/t Peggy K for the share
Originally shared by Peggy K
YouTube redirecting searches for violent extremist videos to content debunking recruiting narratives
Over the past years, Jigsaw partnered with Moonshot CVE to conduct extensive research to understand how extremist groups leverage technology to spread their message and recruit new members. From there, they created the Redirect Method, which uses curated video content to redirect people away from violent extremist propaganda and steer them toward video content that confronts extremist messages and debunks its mythology. Today, YouTube is rolling out a feature using the model proven by the Redirect Method: when people search for certain keywords on YouTube, we will display a playlist of videos debunking violent extremist recruiting narratives.
Learn more on the YouTube blog:
https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/07/bringing-new-redirect-method-features.html
Sheila Hensley | Real Estate Success Center Online School it will be interesting to see if it makes much difference.
ReplyDeleteMy fingers are crossed that it will Peggy K.
ReplyDeleteWhat this is is a blatant move on behalf of YouTube's higher ups to push their political ideology and to silence dissent. The whole reason why YouTube worked in the first place is because it gave ANYONE the freedom to express themselves however they wanted, originally with some reasonable restrictions (IE no snuff films, porn, etc.) Now, thats been thrown out the window in favor of agenda pushing which will turn YouTube into a sanitized and castrated shadow of its former self.
ReplyDeleteAe Olian YouTube can choose what sorts of content it wants to be associated with. And, beyond that, they are likely getting pushed by both governments and advertisers to make sure they aren't associated with promoting terrorism.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that YouTube can choose to associate with whoever they choose to, being a private company and all. The assumption that they're under pressure to combat terrorism on their site leading to this new policy doesn't seem to be realistic. If I'm not mistaken, terror recruitment videos already break their terms of service, while this new policy states that videos deemed to be 'offensive' that abide by their terms of service will be targeted by AI and placed into their 'limited state.' Given the obvious leftist politics that YouTube has openly sympathized with, this will likely effect right wing and/or libertarian political YouTubers, who's channels have been growing in popularity for many years now.
ReplyDeleteAe Olian as I stated, I'm happy something is being done to combat terrorist recruitment. The politics is of no consequence to me.
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