YouTube's New Policy Makes Hoax Videos Decrease
New research finds the policies implemented by YouTube to prevent the spread of hoax news have a significant impact on the number of misinformation videos on Facebook and Twitter platforms.
Reported by detikINET from Engadget, Friday (10/15/2021) this finding comes from a report by a research team from the Center for Social and Political Media at New York University.
During the US election on November 3, 2020, researchers noted a dramatic increase in the number of hoax videos on YouTube being shared on Twitter. In the same month the video represented about a third of all election-related videos shared on the platform
Then after December 8, 2020, a month after the US election, YouTube said it would remove videos alleging election fraud and manipulation of voting results. There has been a dramatic drop in misleading election claims on Twitter.
During that time, the ratio of election-related misinformation videos shared on Twitter from YouTube fell to under 20%.
That ratio fell again after the US Capitol riots when YouTube said it would block any channel that spreads misinformation about election results.
By the time US President Joe Biden took the oath of office on January 20, 2021, only about 5% of all election fraud videos on Twitter came from YouTube. The researchers saw the same trend happening on Facebook.
Prior to YouTube's policy decision on December 8, 2020, there were approximately 18% of all videos shared on the platform related to false election theories. By the day of the inauguration of the US President, that number fell to 4%.
To compile their findings, the team at New York University collected a random sample of 10% of all tweets each day and then isolated those linked to YouTube videos. They do the same on Facebook using the company's CrowdTangle tool.
These findings highlight the huge role YouTube plays in how information is shared today. As the most common video platform on the internet, YouTube has enormous power to shape political opinion. His policies can be both good and bad.
"It's a big part of the information ecosystem. As the YouTube platform gets healthier, others do too," Megan Brown, a researcher at the Center for Social Media and Politics told The Times.
Sumber: detik.com
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