-- -- -- --With an ambitious $ 25 million program, YouTube now seems to want to put an end to fake news videos once and for all. For the ambitious endeavor, the video portal even wants to bring the largest media companies on board. The goal: to provide users with up-to-the-minute news with respectable news.

It's no secret that YouTube has a huge problem with false positives. These can be easily distributed via the video portal that is accessible to everyone, and even the most crudely false reports go through the filter algorithms time and time again. Particularly tricky: Even YouTube Kids was a few weeks ago noticed negative, because the children's platform stupid conspiracy theories listed in the top search results . YouTube itself has always responded promptly to the scandals, but rarely went the efforts far enough. Conspiracy and weapons channels still abound on YouTube, controversial channels continue to broadcast despite losses in advertising revenue, But a new initiative could bring about a turnaround. -- ---- ----- --- --- --------------- ---.