YouTube to Introduce Community Notes Feature to Combat Misleading Information

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YouTube has begun a gradual rollout of its new Community Notes feature to a select group of users. Social media is abuzz with screenshots of invitations sent to participants in the pilot program for this feature, which allows viewers to add brief explanatory notes or corrections to specific video content.

YouTube first announced the Community Notes feature in June, aiming to improve the accuracy and understanding of video content, especially with the upcoming US presidential election.

Although no official launch date has been provided, YouTube has added a section in its Help database to assist users in writing and submitting Community Notes.

The pilot program is currently available only to English-speaking mobile users in the United States. Participants are being chosen through email invitations or notifications within their Creator Studio accounts.

YouTube plans to gather feedback from these initial testers to fine-tune the feature and establish criteria for classifying notes as “helpful,” “somewhat helpful,” or “unhelpful” before a broader release.

ALSO READ: YouTube Shorts Introduces 6 New TikTok-Inspired Features for Creators

Last month, YouTube Shorts rolled out six new features inspired by TikTok. Among them is the “Add Yours” sticker, which allows users to interact with creators via stickers. Other features focus on making short-form content creation faster and easier, including automatic video captions and text narration in four different voices. Additional updates include interactive games within Shorts and an Auto Layout feature that converts longer videos into Shorts while keeping the main subject in focus. Finally, users can now create remix versions of existing remixed videos on YouTube.

Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge 2.0 launched in Pakistan

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Opportunity for VU students to apply for “Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge 2.0”. The Youth Challenge is part of Generation Unlimited – a multi-sector public-private global partnership enabling the largest generation of young people in history to become productive and engaged members of society. The challenge will take place in over 40 countries worldwide, including Pakistan. It calls on young innovators across the country to design solutions to improve education, employment and civic engagement.

Deadline to apply: December 31, 2019

The youth challenge encourages youth between the age of 14-24 to come forward to participate in this challenge. This year’s theme is “Opening Doors, Knowledge and skills for Empowered Youth". The need to empower youth for a better tomorrow is connected both, to the financial elevation as well as increment of the standard of living. A call for applications has been launched in Pakistan and successful applicants will be invited to take part in design workshops in Islamabad in January 2020.

Following these workshops, the five most promising ideas from each country will be selected and awarded prize of USD 1,000 each in funding and provided with mentoring to support the projects’ implementation. Later in June 2020, the most promising solutions from each country will be submitted to a global judging process. These projects will receive further funding of up to $20,000, along with a tailored global incubation program from Generation Unlimited partners to support them to scale.

The most promising ideas will contribute to the success of Generation Unlimited, an ambitious multi-sector public-private global partnership meant to meet the urgent needs for expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people on an unprecedented scale.

To apply online, please visit

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YouTube to Introduce Community Notes Feature to Combat Misleading Information

Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge 2.0 launched in Pakistan