Pandemic Gives YouTube a ‘Chance to Show What We’re Capable Of,’ Europe, Middle East, Africa Chief Says
Naman Ramachandran The pandemic has given YouTube “a chance to show what we’re capable of” when applying its fact-check facilities, Ben McOwen Wilson, YouTube’s regional director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told Variety this week. “I feel very proud of the way that throughout the pandemic we were able to continue to remove, at scale, content that violated our community guidelines,” he said.The fact-check feature is already available in the U.S., Brazil and India, and was introduced in the U.K.