Plus: “Newsworthiness” and how politicians are fact-checked on Facebook, and the number of countries with political disinformation campaigns has more than doubled in the past two years.
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“I’m sure everybody in the industry would [agree] that YouTube can be a messy, nasty place. The membership is just this delightful two-way conversation, with people who are really there to support Vox.”
When a one-hour outage on the platform can result in a 20 percent net hike in traffic to publishers’ websites, YouTube’s got a special share of the attention economy.
Schmidt, Christine. "YouTube helps a majority of American users understand current events — but 64 percent say they see untrue info." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Nov. 2018. Web. 6 Jun. 2023.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2018, Nov. 7). YouTube helps a majority of American users understand current events — but 64 percent say they see untrue info. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved June 6, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/youtube-helps-a-majority-of-american-users-understand-current-events-but-64-percent-say-they-see-untrue-info/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "YouTube helps a majority of American users understand current events — but 64 percent say they see untrue info." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 7, 2018. Accessed June 6, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/11/youtube-helps-a-majority-of-american-users-understand-current-events-but-64-percent-say-they-see-untrue-info/.
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