You can smell the desperation.
YouTube will now place Wikipedia entries about global warming below videos ‘refuting evidence of rising temperatures’
- YouTube will add snippets of factual information on select video clips
- It will target controversial topics, such as anti-vaccination and climate change
- YouTube hopes it will reduce misinformation and conspiracy theories on the site
- Only US viewers can see the feature for now, but YouTube plans to roll-out the feature worldwide at a later date
By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:52 AEST, 9 August 2018 | UPDATED: 22:15 AEST, 9 August 2018YouTube is fighting back against climate change deniers by implementing a fact-checking box below user-uploaded videos on the controversial topic.
The system will surface information from Wikipedia or Britannica Encyclopedia to display factual information in bitesize chunks below videos on climate change.
YouTube already implemented the feature for videos on a slew of other contentious topics, including the MMR vaccination, the moon landing and UFOs.
However, this is the first time the platform has targeted climate change deniers.
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In one example of the updated feature, a Wikipedia snippet read: ‘multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.‘
A YouTube spokesperson has previously confirmed there will be a time delay from when a Wikipedia page is edited to when it appears on the preview beneath a video.
This is designed to allow Wikipedia editors time to catch any discrepancies that sneak under the radar.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6042837/YouTube-takes-climate-change-deniers.html
A lot of people are worried about giant left wing tech monopolies hijacking the climate debate and other hot political issues. I do not share this concern.
The reason this attempted takeover won’t work is, media giants like Youtube are not true monopolies.
Think about what happened when traditional media giants got uppity. They didn’t dominate the debate when they stopped pretending to be objective, they just alienated former viewers who were offended by their bias. Their arrogance created the opportunity for the rise of new media enterprises, by creating a large pool of people who were dissatisfied with the increasingly open biases of traditional media.
I believe something similar is about to happen to Youtube and other openly biased tech giants.
You don’t have to use Youtube for uploading videos. Youtube is convenient and familiar, but now they are becoming abusive towards a substantial number of their users. Like any abusive relationship, sooner or later victims of that abuse will reach the end of their patience, and will turn to alternative services.
The free market will punish their transgressions. Users will vote with their feet.
Make no mistake, those alternative services exist – like the tech service* which for years has quietly supported Anthony Watts by staying true to their original mission, instead of ditching commercial sanity by embracing a crazy new mission of social engineering.
[*Eric means WordPress, which WUWT is hosted on. -Anthony]
UPDATE: It seems this YouTube Video has escaped such notice. – Anthony
Perhaps they could include Wikipedia entries on basic arithmetic for Mark Jacobson’s 100% renewable videos.
If you remember Obama had a secret meeting at MIT – my guess is this is one of the fruits of that meeting.
Obama is the best example of Orwellian methods in a position of high power to ever metastasize in this country.
Realize that Obama is still out there, still using OFA, and still using all his influence to swing elections and push policy. He may not be president anymore, but he still behaves very much like he is.
Obama seems to have a lot of people still in government working hard for him.
Trump is going to clean house once this Witch Hunt investigation is over. He can’t really exercise his full authority because he thinks it would make him look like he is trying to undermine the investigation. This hamstrings Trump and his Attorney General. When the investigation is officially closed this will all go away.
Trump could start making inroads into the Obama administration corruption before the investigation ends by declassifying all pertient government documents about every scandal that occurred during the Obama administration. Let the light shine on all this corruption and lawlessness. Only the guilty would want to keep this information hidden.
Obama can’t like the direction that things are going. As they say, “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, Barrack (and Hillary). It looks like your plans are getting ready to blow up in your faces. Oh, baby! I can’t wait! Gimme some justice!
Do you really thing the libs will let the witch hunt end while Trump is still in office? The witch hunt will only end when Trump is voted out of office or enough Dems get elected to congress to ensure they can force an impeachment that kicks him out of office.
Sherri:
Oh I realize it – in fact, I think he’s one of the real mover/shakers behind this twenty-four hour a day assault on Trump. THAT’s why he’s been so quiet – working behind the scenes.
Real bad boys move in silence.
Thomson Reuters and CBC published this pathetic account:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-conference-new-orleans-1.4779156
More Straw Man than this article, difficult to do…
… And then they claim that little Adolph was the nasty nationalist / fascist… makes you wonder…
Love your first comment, Eric. The desperation is, indeed, palpable.
Of course, it would be terrible if people posted comments AFTER the YouTube postings from Wikipedia, putting those YouTube comments into context. Gosh, I hope that doesn’t happen…😂
I was already planning to.
Cue: evil laughter and JAWS music.
Thanks John. If they had been patient they might have done more damage, but they are in too much of a hurry.. They think the world is going to end next Tuesday.
A quick Google will order any misunderstanding of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming… drop the the catastrophic, drop the anthropogenic, and it’s true.
Adding factual information does not sound like desperation to me. Sounds like deniers are being corrected.
“Sounds like deniers are being corrected.” You sir, too timid to use your own name, just blanket insulted everyone here. What a childish, clueless, and substance-free troll you’ve become.
You’d be squawking bloody murder if say, the same thing was done on YouTube videos where the Clintons are discussed to have Wikipedia references to Benghazi, Whitewater, and missing items from the White House referenced with every campaign or rally video.
Google has opened a Pandora’s box of information war, that now, having been established, can be applied against anything or anyone they don’t like, and that’s the slippery slope for free speech.
And if you have the courage, debate me with your own name. I doubt you will.
As always, Anthony, your patience and adherence to the high-ground is laudable .
If I were you, I would have probably bit someone by now.
What’s factual about the added content?
… and before too long, ‘re-educated.’
Bad little clone – slither back under your rock.
alley,
you wouldn’t know or understand factual if it was your own personal lemiwinks.
Now THAT was funny! I’m almost ashamed that I get the reference.
well, I was very surprised when it went directly to moderation; at that point I thought maybe it was too much (& I would have pulled it, but once it goes to moderation you can’t edit it).
anyway … glad somebody got a laugh out of it.
I am an engineer, never got above a B in expository writing classes and I could easily write thesis on any of half a dozen topics using 100% factual, verifiable information and data. This thesis would contain absolutely no false information whatsoever. Period. However, the thesis would be a pure fabrication that was completely false, unverifiable and unprovable. There are many others that could also do this. Many of the fiction novels are an excellent example of this, John Clancy and Michael Crichton are good examples.
In my opinion, the UN AGW claim is also an excellent example. The IPCC Synthesis Report, Summary for Policy Makers does not even agree with and presents conclusions that are contrary to the working group reports. I have often been called out for providing “false information” that is in the working group reports that does not agree with the SRSPM, even after citing the paragraph.
Read the WHOLE UN IPCC report, you might learn something.
It’s not the individual facts much of the time, it’s how the story using them is woven.
It would seem you are a person who would, with a serious face, say “Whose facts”?
What must be sad for you, Alley, is that, even if you are right about impending catastrophic warming, nothing can or will be done to stop it. (You have noticed all the “tipping points” gliding by, while CO2 concentration keeps climbing like a homesick angel, right? ) Knowing that must take the fun out of your existence, such as it is. How hot do you suppose will it get in your mom’s basement?
Great, Alley! You’re now in double-digit negatives. Try for triple?
My Youtube video “Vanishing Ice Most Likely All Natural! was just targeted by youtube gatekeepers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZb0r4G_Gc
My video was totally based on undeniable peer reviewed science. The foundation of trusted science is open debate that vets all hypotheses. Youtube is taking one more step into intellectual tyranny
We knew this was coming as Google has pushed the idea they should be the gatekeepers of truth
Jim;
I took a quick peek, and sure enough. The thing is, it looks like they are dropping a one-size-fits-all sort of sticker on global warming topics. I didn’t notice any claim in your video that the world is not warming.
Say, now that the label is up, can you edit your video and leave it with the same label? Then you can look down and to the right (stage right) and make a suitably pithy comment on their tag. Could be hilarious!
Yes, work “Thought Police” into your comment.
Google has clearly and openly decided to side with the climate liars, absolutely politically motivated. Where are the disclaimers for all their wrong predictions?
We can know it’s all coordinated political propaganda due to the sheer number of alarmist climate videos and articles recently that are expousing the in reality truly relatively few heat records this year, and the ginned-up fear of arctic sea ice melting.
This Guy McPherson video, posted Aug 10, is a perfect example of a completely wrong prediction about to fail, yet taken seriously by fellow travelers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4P4FRAS6Tw
Will Google censor him after his predictions of collapse in September this year don’t happen? Will they post a disclaimer or warning that he’s full of it and his predictions unreliable?
The YT feed for this video included other such alarmist ‘gems’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4DPREMWnBE
“Climate scientist Michael Mann says that, under a business-as-usual scenario, the mass displacement of billions could trigger an unprecedented national security crisis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQPHhxLyV2I
“Should we be focusing on surviving? Is it too late to save world?”
Clearly Google’s YT will publish garbage without compunction, as long as it fits the narrative.
Google’s Eric Schmidt is Obama’s b*tch, carrying out his subversive covert agenda, interfering in this election cycle with true misinformation, with fake news, just like they did against Trump.
I expect them to go lower the closer we get to the mid-term elections.
gab.io and minds will take over from youtube. Not next year or the year after but sooner than you think if youtube carry on like this.
Wikipedia ~ Factual Information? – “Yer ‘avin a giraffe”
Some muvvers do ‘ave ’em.
D-Tube!!!!!!!!
I have to say that your YouTube interview was the best I have seen on this issue. Well reasoned and spoken.
PragerU has had about 80 of its videos banned or restricted by YouTube. Yet PragerU’s videos on climate, all expressing the “skeptic” position, are still available on YouTube. Plus, no contrary commentary is posted by YouTube.
Patience, they just haven’t gotten to them yet.
Unrelated but, where the heck are the University of Arizona/Overpeck emails? Anybody hear anything when they’ll be available?
I hope they are blackening out all of the words of interest before releasing them…
kramer,
On July 17 (24 days ago), this was the email response I received from Mr Schnare, the person leading the FOIA push to get the emails.
“The University is appealing the main case to the appellate court and appealing the denial of a stay in the order of execution to the Supreme Court. This could be over within 14 days or by next spring. “
Thanks for the update – I’ve been wondering about that myself.
Eric, as a 30-year veteran in marketing and persuasion techniques, I am not as optimistic when you say you are not concerned with skeptics having their messages hijacked. Having the ‘provenance’ of a publication make a disclaimer on anyone’s message is a strong element of undercutting credibility. (“We’re running this, but the story is false.”)
We are challenged, often, with the need to present complexity and data to make our arguments. The left, and warmist websites, are extremely competent with simplistic and seemingly compelling responses. (Here’s a picture of a fire!)
Our side is challenged more so today with the short attention span and lack of diligence and motivation among many to ‘go find out the truth for myself.’ As with Orwell, as along as they keep saying ‘warming’ over and over, it becomes true. Ultimately we seem to be winning based on polls and low percentage of those ‘worrying,’ but actions like YouTube, NPR, etc. will continue to draw out the war.
Larry I first learned about WUWT when a climate alarmist sneered at me because of my AGW skepticism, asked me if I was getting my information from WUWT.
They can slow down or moderately disrupt information flow, but only so long as they have an audience. Word gets about.
The Rise of Fox News as the dominant US cable news outlet (by viewership) for TV viewers was directly the result of half of the US got sick of the Democrat-leaning, Liberal bias from CNN, ABC, NBC,CBS.
Fox News Channel is one of the best things that ever happened to this nation.
The way to respond to this latest extension of left fascism is to spoof it satirically. Post informative scientific climate videos and edit in pop-up messages like:
“Youtube warning: if you continue to watch this politically incorrect video you could soon receive a visit from your local police department.”
“YouTube warning: independent thought on the subject of climate change is discouraged since an official opinion has been established – continue watching this video at your own risk.”
“YouTube warning: your online viewing history is studied by YouTube people’s analysts and if deemed insufficiently obeisant to the correct line on issues such as climate, this could result in your forcible accommodation in a YouTube correctional facility.”
Fight back!
“This is designed to allow Wikipedia editors time to catch any discrepancies that sneak under the radar.”
Translation – “When something is entered that goes against the AGW propaganda Wikipedia editors favor, this will them time to delete it.”
Justice Scalia said it best – The antidote for free speech is more free speech.
The only step U-Tube should consider is adding everyone’s comment and/or opinion to ANY challenge to the ‘facts’ on any subject.
The fight for control of “the truth” has begun…
I’m way late to this thread, but I’ve seen no evidence of any “propaganda”, then again I’ve trained myself to screen out all the extraneous crap that fills most websites, maybe I missed out on it.
I wonder how this is going to play out. It seams the government is putting the screws to social media “be political correct or else”.
But what if you don’t have a free market? There are alternate websites such as gab.ai, bitchute.com, and wordpress.com. You can view them for now
Let’s go one level up the chain. In many places in the USA there are at best 2, and often only 1 real broadband option. With telcos allowing DSL to die, it’s usually cable. So there’s no “free market” there. What happens if Comcast took it upon themselves to block gab.ai, bitchute.com, wordpress.com, Breitbart, and Drudge, or charge you extra for them? With the removal of net neutrality in the US, there would be nothing legally stopping Comcast from doing so.
In case you’re wondering where their political sympathies lie, remember that Comcast gave their employees paid time off to demonstrate against Trump. https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/comcast_employees_get_paid_time_off_to_protest_trump_travel_ban.html
Why are they wasting manpower on conservatives and Skeptics when they can’t even count Viewers correctly? How soon till YouTube is taken to court over the fake viewers? All viewer counts should be caped at 1,00 or 10,000 views , or some other measure to prevent this false number. Those paying the bill should refuse to pay. It has been talked about for years and all that has happened so far is the NYT article.
See the NYTs article. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/11/technology/youtube-fake-view-sellers.html