{"id":7329,"date":"2020-03-17T15:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7329"},"modified":"2020-03-17T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:48:30","slug":"covid-19-notice-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7329","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Notice on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/YoutubeCovidNotice-1024x360.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/YoutubeCovidNotice-1024x360.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/YoutubeCovidNotice-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/YoutubeCovidNotice-768x270.png 768w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/YoutubeCovidNotice.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>COVID-19 Popup Notice on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When you go to YouTube now in Canada, a notice from the Public Health Agency of Canada pops up inviting you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html\">Learn More<\/a> from a reliable source. This strikes me a great way to encourage people to get their information from a reliable source rather than wallow in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/16\/coronavirus-fake-news-pandemic-133447\">fake news<\/a> online. This is particularly true of YouTube that is one of the facilitators of fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More generally it shows an alternative way that social media platforms can fight fake news on key issues. They can work with governments to put appropriate information before people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html\">Learn More<\/a> links to a government site with a wealth of information and links. Had it just been a short feel good message with a bit of advice, the site probably wouldn&#8217;t work to distract people towards reliable information. Instead the site has enough depth that one could spend a lot of time and get a satisfying picture. This is what one needs to fight fake news in a time of obsession &#8211; plenty of true news for the obsessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you go to YouTube now in Canada, a notice from the Public Health Agency of Canada pops up inviting you to Learn More from a reliable source. This strikes me a great way to encourage people to get their information from a reliable source rather than wallow in fake news online. This is particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid-19 Notice on YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interface-design-and-usability","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7331,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7329\/revisions\/7331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}