THE Nigerian Government says it is collaborating with Google to curb the spread of hate speech and disinformation on YouTube channels. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this when a team from Google Inc. visited him in …
Russia has fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google $373 million for allegedly promoting fake news on its platform. The development is in line with Russia’s efforts to keep mainstream media in check since the emergence of its war with Ukraine. Google was …
YOUTUBE says it is cracking down on videos containing abortion misinformation and will take down videos that provide instructions for unsafe abortion. The company, in a tweet, added that videos that promote false claims about abortion safety would no longer …
IN a bid to curb the spread of misinformation on its platform, YouTube has proposed three new steps. This development is coming a few weeks after the video-sharing and social media platform announced its intention to collaborate with fact-checkers, using …
TO curb the spread of misinformation on the internet, YouTube has joined other platforms such as Google and Facebook to collaborate with fact-checkers using information panels. These panels, launched in Brazil and India in 2019, inform the public if claims …