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YouTube Working on ‘Notes’ to Add User-Generated Context to Videos

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(source: Souvik Banerjee)

To combat misinformation, YouTube will introduce a feature allowing viewers to add notes to videos for fact-checking and additional context, similar to Twitter’s Community Notes.

When sharing notes, there will be some back-and-forth between users. Independent reviewers, the same ones who give feedback on YouTube’s search results and suggestions, will assess the helpfulness of the submitted notes. If a note is helpful enough, it will be displayed below a video. A viewer can rate the note as “helpful,” “somewhat helpful,” or “unhelpful” and explain their choice. An algorithm will decide if notes stay published based on viewer ratings.

As it would be under a testing phase, YouTube would allow select users to write notes on videos. To qualify, the users must have accounts at least six months old, no recent community guidelines strikes, not be supervised accounts, and not have multiple owners. The notes won’t be available on videos featuring minors, Made for Kids content, or private videos. Additionally, the creator can delete them anytime, even after publication.

It’ll be available to US users in the coming weeks and months.

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