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According to a new study, the two most important Google tools to combat misinformation on YouTube work only in some European languages.
When users watch YouTube video on an item often involved in misinformation, for example, Covid-19 vaccines or climate change, label should appear He directs them Third sources with additional information on the subject, for example, on Wikipedia.
The information table is also intended for the emergence of user search results in their working language.
However, the forensics of AI, a non -core organization based on Europe, which explores large technological companies, found that it was Often does not happenField
Researchers created a web nut for checking tables and found that in 83 languages of the video platform, information tables were implemented in 12 issues in the catalog CONSPIRACY Wikipedia, as well as in four types of labels.
All tables are available in English. In German, a video on all issues, except for one – Armenian genocide – have these labels. At the same time, very few panels are available in Icelandic or Lithuanian.
The CRIMSIS said that the tests show that YouTube pays “disproportionate attention to Western languages” and “neglect” regional languages, such as Basque, Catalan and Galicans.
Refusal of responsibility for maintenance on YouTube goes beyond the framework of problems prone to disinformation. It also includes labels for news sources and events that They explain If they are partially or fully funded by state sources as a way to “help you better understand the sources of news content,” the company said.
But state funding was allocated in some countries, and not in others, as was found in the reporting of artificial intelligence forensicity.
For example, Euronews receives some funding from the European Union. YouTube indicated this in some countries, but not in Denmark, Greece, Norway, Iceland, Finland or Portugal.
“We are afraid … what could be some group of people who have a different access to security measures” to combat disinformation on the platform, said EURONEWS Salvatore Romano, head of the study of artificial artificial art.
“Instead of increasing users’ confidence in the platform, it is undermining (this),” added Romano.
It is not clear whether you will encounter inconsistencies
On the Weutube website, it is noted that “information tables can be inaccessible in all countries/regions and languages” and that the company is working to expand its range.
The AI forensicity team said that she met YouTube to present her research. During these meetings, YouTube allegedly stated that the deviations between languages should not have occurred and that he had no way to systematically monitor how the tables were developing throughout Europe.
AI tests said that YouTube agreed to cope with these discrepancies, but did not go into details.
YouTube did not respond to the Euronews Next request for clarification at the alleged meetings or measures that he intends to accept.
YouTube, under the leadership of the Maternal company Google, has sign The Code of Practice of the European Commission for misinformation, a voluntary agreement establishing the standards of technological companies to combat misinformation.
In March YouTube Stated This is in his commitment, he “appreciates and updates the problems that are subject to misinformation and which receive additional content from information panels.”
But Romano believes that random content can be even more extensive than the researchers of the forensics of AI discovered, since the report says that it shows only a “partial view” with a small sample of panels.
The commission may exert “pressure on YouTube” for inconsistencies: Forensicism AI
Romano said that he hopes that YouTube will correct the discrepancies. If he does not, he said that he would invite the European commission, the EU executive body, to investigate the possible violation of the law on digital services (DSA).
The commission, for example, could request more information from YouTube about how she controls her panels, which is the first step of each DSA study, he said.
“The European Commission can put pressure on YouTube to show them that this kind of discrepancy is unacceptable to all platforms and all products,” he said, noting that it creates “purchases of the second class” throughout Europe, where standards intended for protection against misinformation.
Euronews then contacted the commission to confirm whether it would request additional information from YouTube, but did not receive an immediate response.
Romano, at least, will watch. Said that his team created tool To track how regularly information labels appear on YouTube in various languages.
Through a publicly accessible tracker, people can see what problems the content tags have in their own language. It will also allow researchers to determine any changes in information tablets, said Romano.