YouTube says monitoring content regularly to check fake news amid polls

NEW DELHI: YouTube is continuously monitoring the content on its platform to check misinformative and violative posts as there has been a rise in “interest” due to the election season, an official of the Google’s service said.

The online video service from this month has started providing information panel in India around certain events, topics, publishers alongside search and videos to make users aware of context and videos they watch, he highlighted.