<div dir="auto">For what it is worth, that 2,000 channels doesn't yet include many US local channels, but does have many government funded "world services" which all have slants.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I see value in surfacing diverse "news people know" from the perspective of transparency. Do most people know the background or potential bias of a source, no ... but I see value in multiple sources on the same story being presented together. This is why I tolerate all the British tabloid crap headlines rising up on Google News as those papers make a play for US readers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In that last few days, I could imagine YouTube internally testing their recommendation engine by how many FOX story watchers were recommended a story from Al Jazeera and vice versa.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyone here have a contact in YouTube's news area? Let's chat with them directly or forward our convo.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Steve</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 7:20 AM grarpamp <<a href="mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com">grarpamp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> <a href="http://tvnewsapp.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tvnewsapp.com</a><br>
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> I'd be curious what kind of recommendation engine one could build with<br>
> different philosophy sets on top of the YouTube API?<br>
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With distributed tech some YT alternatives are both<br>
possible and now emerging.<br>
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YouTube certainly won't do it, not least since pressure from govcorp<br>
and activist anti free speech types won't allow it, nor will YT's<br>
aka Evil Alphabet's own motivations, nor all the money and<br>
programming plainly evident filling the YT frontpage with stupid.<br>
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> content from ... 2,000 ... "trusted" brands<br>
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Brands like these filling the 2000 mainstream channels...<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sinclair+news+script" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sinclair+news+script</a><br>
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>> accounts<br>
> I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, or how it is relevant<br>
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Yes wisdom is needed when studying what rises from the earth,<br>
those who have understanding can calculate their numbers.<br>
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