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YouTube Launches What It Claims Is an ‘Authoritative News’ Hub
YouTube introduced a dedicated news-watching experience to help viewers across 40 countries find the latest stories from reputable sources, the company announced on Wednesday. The aim is to make reliable news more readily accessible with two added features including a watch page and a “Shorts Innovation Program.” The watch page will pull content from what…
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Elon Musk Decides NPR Is Not State Propaganda After All
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided that NPR is not the same as media outlets like China’s Xinhua News, which is a well-known state propaganda machine, after all, even though he classified them both as “state-affiliated media” on the social media network this past Wednesday. After receiving pushback from NPR, Musk debuted a new label…
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The EU Says Twitter Didn’t Complete Its Homework Assignment
EU officials are singling out Twitter today after the company’s report on the role of disinformation on its platform fell short of competitors like Google and Meta. Twitter now has until July to submit an updated report to the EU.
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You Really Don’t Want the Government to Be Your Content Moderator
“All governments lie,” the leftist journalist I.F. Stone once said. Stone wasn’t trying to be provocative, merely pointing out that there’s a pretty basic reason we have a free press in the United States: the government is not a reliable narrator. Governments aren’t inherent liars; they just don’t always have a good reason to tell…