![]() YouTube recently said it wanted to recommend videos that viewers would consider “time well spent.” YouTube also said it had been working to broaden recommendations so that they weren’t too similar to the most recent video. In its early years, YouTube said, it suggested videos the company thought would lead to more clicks or views, but it found that people who created videos had started trying to game the system with clickbait titles. YouTube said it was constantly adjusting its recommendation system, noting that it made hundreds of changes last year. “We think this change strikes a balance between maintaining a platform for free speech and living up to our responsibility to users,” YouTube wrote in the blog post. ![]() Also, YouTube will not exclude the so-called borderline videos from search results. YouTube is not taking down the targeted videos, and it will still recommend them to users who subscribe to a channel that creates such content. The company declined to provide more detail on what other videos would be classified borderline. YouTube provided only three examples of the types of videos that it would stop recommending: those promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, ones claiming the earth is flat or content making blatantly false claims about historic events like the Sept. Some videos appear behind a brief message saying the videos may be inappropriate or offensive. In late 2017, YouTube started putting “controversial religious or supremacist” content in a “limited state” so the videos are not monetized with advertising, and features such as comments and likes are turned off. The new policy is also the latest example of YouTube’s taking a more aggressive approach to content that many find distasteful even if it is not in violation of the service’s community guidelines. Deepfake Rules: In most of the world, the authorities can’t do much about deepfakes, as few laws exist to regulate the technology. ![]()
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