With YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter taking increasingly aggressive actions to "scrub" their content of opinion that doesn't line up with the guidance of governments, world health organization, or news outlets, the question becomes "Just what is an 'Authoritative Source', anyway?"
To answer that question (and discuss the inherent failures of appealing to authority solely because of that authority), we turn to the exact words used by YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan in an interview given to web outlet Protocol this week.
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Discussed in this episode:
"YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan | Protocol Virtual Meetup" YouTube Video - April 23, 2020 - protocol https://youtu.be/rivsTA9jnaA
"Neal Mohan" LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/neal-mohan/
"Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) updates" YouTube Help Page https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9777243#resources
"YouTube Debuts Plan to Promote and Fund 'Authoritative' News" Wired - July 9, 2020 - Issie Lapowsky https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-debuts-plan-to-promote-fund-authoritative-news/
"Monetization update on COVID-19 content" YouTube Help Page https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9803260
"Argument from authority" Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
"The surgeon general wants Americans to stop buying face masks" CNN Health - March 2, 2020 - Leah Asmelash https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus-surgeon-general-trnd/index.html
"Virtual Legality" is a continuing series discussing the law, video games, software, and everything digital, hosted by Richard Hoeg, of the Hoeg Law Business Law Firm (Hoeg Law).
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