About a week ago I came across this video. I immediately wondered why I had not heard of this? How come there weren't alerts on my phone? How come it is not a news flash interrupting our normal tv?
I watched on and my disbelief heightened. I checked online and I couldn't see anything about the matter.
I reported it to YouTube for being false report pretending to be genuine news. I phrased my report with great care, but there wasn't a response. I tried again and the second time I did receive a pro forma response.
I noted others had already done so, yet it still is online a week later. While YouTube gives me much pleasure, it is clearly not a responsible media organisation, or tech company if you like.
Could Canada close its airspace to US airlines? I don't know, but I do think the repercussions would be as huge as described.
YouTube leaves lies like this report online for a week, and clearly longer, what a disgrace. Just the headline of Canada closing air space to the US should have triggered something at YouTube to verify the report.
Update: According to YouTube, the video has now been removed. I am sure it wasn't just me alone who protested. Better still, the account has been suspended. While I didn't look at them, there were other videos at the same site, no doubt in a similar vein.
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Except for cat videos, the internet kinda sucks.
ReplyDeleteThere is so much obvious cr@p on there it beggars belief.
ReplyDeleteThe worry is, there will be so many idiots that believe it all.
It seems to me that most news is enhanced inaccurate or unbelievable in thiis era. There is so much political and personal bias in news reporting. I am also appalled by the use of shock, horrified and other extreme adjectives to describe items like a tennis loss, a football injury, a personal relationship crisis.facelift broken fingernail or other minor issues . Real issues on a local and world scale need accurate reporting and trashy personal interest nonsense do not need reporting on at all.
ReplyDeleteChoose your media wisely, I guess.
DeleteI think whatever you see on the internet you need to search out and see if it's a story anywhere else, and if not it's probably not true.
ReplyDeleteYes Bob. I immediately thought, well if this happened, I would already know about it
DeleteIt’s alarming how easily misinformation can circulate online
ReplyDeleteA whole lot of what's on social media now seems to be fake news or AI generated videos. Has taken a lot of the fun out of social media. Except for cat videos.
ReplyDeleteCould Canada close its airspace to US airlines? Could Canada stop people moving north from the USA because USA didn't protect its own citizens from Covid? Did the USA try to move its border north into Canada during the mid-C19th, making USA bigger and more powerful? Yes, yes, yes.
ReplyDeleteThe Economic Union Party sought closer ties between Newfoundland with the United States. However Canada objected and the British government, which administered the Dominion of Newfoundland, would not allow it to consider annexation with the United States. A referendum did not show a majority and Newfoundland instead confederated with Canada.
ReplyDeleteVery informative, Hels.
DeleteI tend to not believe a lot of stuff I see on you tube. But htis morning in my newspaper I read that Trump is planning on bombing Cuba "right after we finish this" meaning right after he finishes with Iran. True or not true? Who can tell? And maybe he will die before that can happen.
ReplyDeleteRiver, that would be in the Murdoch owned newspaper. Take what you read with a grain of salt. The Guardian Australia is a reliable source of information.
DeleteIt takes more than a good dose of common sense to watch anything purporting to be news these days.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe, Andrew. Like you I would have searched to see if it was correct and these days I see myself doing this more to find if it's fake new, fake video or real.. Not good enough really.
ReplyDeleteNo, if Canada had done that, I don't think news of it would have been confined to that one video. I'm curious about the motives of the people who made it.
ReplyDeleteKirk, that is what I wonder. Why? Maybe to make people wonder if it was possible, and as per Hels comment above, it seems it is.
DeleteAnything involving Trump isn't worth the time of day
ReplyDeleteThe big tell in AI is the small nod after a sentence is spoken. Good for you, Andrew. I've reported a lot of these AI falsehoods. YouTube needs to clean up its act.
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I was caught out the other day by something that seemed 'real' but wasn't. I wasn't on top form that day . . .
ReplyDeleteI got caught a few weeks ago because I didn't double check it, as someone reliable had told me about it.
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