YouTube launches features to bring transparency to news content in India

YouTube, the Google owned video streaming platform, on Monday announced that it is introducing key features to make news experience more transparent and contextual in poll bound India. The streaming platform stated that it is going to make authoritative news sources readily available on search results and homepage, provide fact checking from eligible publishers in English and Hindi and furnish the funding details of news publishers.

“In the last few years, news has become an integral part of YouTube’s experience for millions of Indians online. With improved connectivity and low cost of data, watch-time of India’s authoritative news sources has more than tripled over the past two years. We have been hard at work to ensure that we are responsibly growing news and supporting news publishers on YouTube,” said Tim Katz, director and head of news partnerships, YouTube in a blog post.