YouTube to crack down on fake news, backing 'authoritative' sources

This article discusses about Youtube’s plan to help reliable, verified news sources readily available to people. Youtube invested 25 million dollars for this project, part of it goes toward developing features on the site to promote quality breaking news videos. They are trying to fight against the surge of conspiracy theories following tragic events such as mass shootings in the US. Youtube’s solutions to this is temporarily prioritise articles over videos since it takes longer to produce a verified high-quality video; in the upcoming weeks, short preview of articles will show up in the…