'Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you're havin' a fantastic Tuesday
welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're gonna talk about today by far one of
the most requested stories from the past day and that is news about news on the Internet - specifically YouTube
The reason we're talking about this today is essentially right as yesterday's show went out, YouTube made a massive
announcement regarding news on the platform. It's actually a part of the larger Google news initiative that was announced back in March.
So one of the big pieces here
Well one, YouTube put out a blog with these changes and they say after a breaking news event
it takes time to verify, produce and publish high quality videos. Journalists often write articles first to break the news rather than produce videos.
That's why in the coming weeks in the US
We will start providing a short preview of news articles and search results on YouTube that link to the full article during the initial hours
of a major news event along with a reminder that breaking and developing news can rapidly change.
And this is part of YouTube's effort as they put it "to prominently surface authoritative sources."
And so along with that they announced to make it easier to find quality news,
our top news shelf prominently highlights videos from new sources and search results.
And adding when it comes to breaking news,
our breaking news shelf highlights videos from news organizations
about that event directly on the YouTube homepage and those features they said launched in 17 countries
And they expect that number to double in the coming month
Of course, one of the questions that comes with this story is okay. Who are they saying or authoritative sources?
Who are they going to be featuring and if we look at the screenshots they provided thus far you see USA Today CBS this morning
Fox News CNN and one for the New York Times
But they also add that there is going to be a focus on local news writing many people want value and trust local news
so when a major event happens local reporters are often the first on site to capture events as they unfold we've begun testing features at
Surface local news in the YouTube app for TV screens across 25 media markets around the United States making it easy to access local news
in the living room our fastest growing screen and on top of this and also appears that YouTube is embracing Wikipedia and
Encyclopedia Britannica saying we also believe users should be able to choose and make their own judgments about the information
They consume along with context to inform their judgement
So starting today users will begin seeing information from third parties
Including Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica alongside videos on a small number of well-established
Historical and scientific topics that have been often subject to misinformation like the moon landing and the Oklahoma City bombing
So that is a pretty obvious swing at conspiracy theory videos
And in addition to this YouTube announced that they are committing a 25 million-dollar investment specifically regarding this money
They call it innovation funding saying we provide funding across proximately 20 global markets to support news organizations and building sustainable video
Operations provide it on an application basis to news organizations of all types
These grants will enable our partners to build key capability train staff on video best practices enhance production
Facilities and develop formats optimized for online video. Additionally they say they're expanding their team of specialists that work with news publishers
Also adding that they've established an early working group is to help handle
Challenges and make the news experience on YouTube bad adding that some of the early members include India today and Vox media
What the final notes they hit on is what they call an investment in the digital literacy education saying we've teamed up with the pointer
Institute Stanford University local media Association and the National Association for media literacy
education to support media wise a
Us-based initiative designed to equip 1 million teens with digital literacy skills adding six incredible YouTube creators including John Green
Ingrid Nelson and Mark Watson will be working with media wise to bring awareness to digital literacy and help educate
teens, and so with all of that said to change ears my personal take away from this is
I'm skeptical but interested I'll kind of expand on that because so many people kept sending these screenshots or just links to Susan Wojcicki
linking off to the blog and announcement
What I'll say is YouTube like every other platform right now has a fake news problem
And I personally of the belief that this is partially a self-inflicted wound specifically that algorithms on all of these platforms
reward people for getting people to stay on the platform
for example If someone is a flat earther and they watch a video and they're intrigued and they dive down the rabbit hole the the platform
Will say hey, do you want more of this crazy bullshit?
also Unfortunately in the minutes right after
Breaking news usually around shootings people just start throwing up videos saying oh, this could be the thing that's happening
Oh
It might be this person things that haven't been
Verified yet because those people were first to the story people start searching for that story
They essentially end up getting rewarded
So we look at YouTube's announcements here and we go ok, so they're trying to deal with those issues, but I like many others
I'm intrigued and also skeptical of who they choose to be authoritative sources regarding featuring local news more prominently
Yes, please. Do not make it just the YouTube TV app also, unfortunately, I know that I have to make because of YouTube's branding
I'm saying the app for YouTube for TVs and not the app YouTube TV
If anyone should be getting featured more prominently on the platform across the board, it is local news
So regarding the other guys the big I am skeptical and nervous as someone who was independent trying to talk about news
It feels like yet another hurdle that pushes our content further down
it feels like the prominent featuring of
Organizations that do not have a lot of public trust that said for transparency sake after this announcement was made I was contacted by YouTube
I obviously hope for the best to come out of those conversations
I am one voice
but hopefully I can I can throw in some opinions for the others right some input from
organizations that aren't MSM or don't have previous deals with YouTube like YouTube TV and The Young Turks
Of course the big thing to note there. I am NOT involved yet early early early early stages of a conversation
Hopefully some good comes out of it policy and I'll actually I'll pass the question off to you
What are your thoughts about this move? Do you think it makes sense?
Do you see this as a potential win or no? Do you think this is a bad move on their part?
They should have been more hands-off or actually maybe even a third option
Do you think that they were kind of screwed either way screwed if they didn't do something because people would say why don't you care?
Or screw it if they did something because people would say, oh, you're just you're skewing it trying to control the truth
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Links is always on the description down below. Then we had NFL running back LeSean McCoy in the news because of a slew of
Allegations any allegations were talking about today appear to be coming from a friend of an ex or a current girlfriend of McCoy
And she posted this side by side of McCoy's growth under ex girlfriend Alicia Corden with the caption
Actually McCoy is the devil. You are an animal. We didn't say anything about how you beat your dog. Henny ands a kidney failure
Let's not talk about all the times my best friend had to stop you from viciously beating your son for small things like peeing in
the bed we kept quiet about your drug usage all the illegal steroids and needles you were using but we will not keep quiet about
This I can't believe you did this to my best friend
Your karma is going to be so real world needs to know what type of animal you really are
This was just her yesterday on the left
And now this morning this is her on the right
so all in all we have allegations of drug use child abuse animal abuse and
Domestic abuse and looking through the Instagram accounts that does seem to be some connection if we go through Corden's Instagram
We see a video where McCoy is actually filming himself another one from the past where she's on a red carpet posing with McCoy
You'll see recent photos of Mia and Corden together so we can see that there's a friendship now following this post and gaining traction
According to ESPN the Buffalo Bills are aware of the accusation
And since then McCoy has addressed these
Allegations on Instagram and Twitter writer for the record the totally baseless and offensive claims made against me today on social media are completely false
Furthermore I have not had any direct contact with any of the people involved in months
No big thing to note with this story is the timing is really interesting regarding the attack. Most people would ask, okay
Well, where's the police report? Well, according to TMZ sports officials said EMTs responded to a home on delecious Street early Monday morning
They're only three houses on her block as far as details
We're not really getting an according to reports Milton police department was still preparing a police report initially
There's also been the situation in Georgia where McCoy is trying to get Kourtney out of a house according to documents obtained by TMZ sports
McCoy went to court in June seeking to get a judge's order forcing her to move out of a home
He owns and Alpharetta, Georgia
and in those court documents McCoy allegedly wrote defendant his ex-girlfriend of owner plaintiff and refuses to leave and once again, like I said,
The timing is important here reportedly, both sides were actually supposed to appear in court today
But still all that said it is incredibly important to realize that this still a developing
Story, and this is very early on there's some things to consider and also not a lot
No, you don't have the full details regarding the EMTs that were on the scene
The allegations are coming from a friend and not the woman herself
Although based off of those pictures that could be just based off of ability
And so as of right now
I'll have to wait to see what comes next and then let's talk about a fantastic update out of Thailand with that story
We've talked about for the past week 12 boys and their coach stuck in a cave for more than two weeks and the big news
Is they are all out the rescue operation resumed at around 10:00 a.m
Local time and just a few hours later the remaining four boys and their coach were out
They were rescued they were then transported to a local hospital. But main point they all got out. This is amazing news
It's only people come together to save these kids that at a time the situation seemed pretty hopeless
And since this is probably the last time that we will talk about this story on the show
I did want to know and remember one thing and that is of course again former Thai Navy SEAL
Saman Coonan who died in his attempt to help rescue these boys his sacrifice and the risk that all of these people took to help
someone they didn't even know it's those actions and these moments that make me feel like
Maybe we'll be all right as a species may be good can thrive and an otherwise unforgiving world?
I think that's a note that I want to leave with that story and then let's talk about President
Drums nominee for Supreme Court justice, which actually before we even move forward on this
I just need to say that I have never quite felt more. Like I was just part of the reality show
That is the United States of America then yesterday when the White House official Twitter account released kind of a hype video
for the announcement
But that said the announcement happens and Donald Trump makes his pick in keeping with President Reagan's legacy
I do not ask about a nominees personal opinions
What matters is not a judge's political views but whether they can set aside
Those views to do what the law and the Constitution
Require I am pleased to say that I have found
without doubt
Such a person
Tonight it is my honor and privilege to announce that I will nominate
judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court
that man who is likely reveal he comes in right after his name was announced like he's the new
Bachelor and actually to introduce I'm like, he's on The Bachelor
that is Brett Kavanaugh 53 year old federal appeals court judge who loves the
Constitution as much as he loves coaching his children's sports teams also he is considered by some experts too if he is
Approved would end up being one of the three most conservative justices on the Supreme Court
but that said that's kind of painting Kavanagh with a broad brush since we kind of have to look at individual topics as well as
Things that he's done or said in the past
So one of the things we'll hear a lot about is his investigations of and around Bill Clinton in 1994
He was hired by independent counsel Ken Starr this to investigate the death of President Bill Clinton's deputy counsel Vincent foster
He also investigated Bill Clinton himself regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal. That's actually a thing
I'm note because after he kind of looked back at how that investigation
Unfolded he gave this quote saying even the lesser burdens of a criminal investigation
Including preparing for questioning by criminal investigators are time-consuming and distracting like civil suits Criminal Investigations
Take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people and a president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal
Investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president
and so while Kevin know there seems to be referencing what happened with Bill Clinton people are obviously
Pointing to the current situation of the Moller investigation and of course one of the big questions is where does Cavanaugh stand regarding abortion?
specifically a roe v wade and here people have been mainly looking at two different instances and the first instance comes from
2006 during his confirmation here. We see this interaction between Senator Chuck Schumer and Cavanaugh's. Do you consider?
Roe v wade to be an abomination
and do you consider yourself to be a
Judicial nominee like the president said he was going to nominate people in the mold of Scalia and Thomas
Center on the question of roe v wade if confirmed to the DC Circuit, I would follow roe v wade
Faithfully and fully that would be binding precedent in the court
It's been decided by the Supreme Court you your own opinion?
You know I'm saying if I were confirmed to the DC Circuit senator, I would follow it
It's been reaffirmed many times including in Planned Parenthood. Very understand. But what is your opinion? You're not on the bench yet?
You've talked about these issues in the past to other people
I'm sure this the Supreme Court has held repeatedly Center and I don't think it would be
Appropriate for me to give up nurse Angela questions and reception from this has been mixed
I'm taking that as he respects precedent
if it's already been decided I'm not going to change it whereas others have taken that somewhat as a
Non-answer or at the very least something that would not relate to him being on the Supreme Court winning out that he is simply saying
If I am on this lesser Court, I would follow the precedent from the Supreme Court
And so the argument is essentially once he is on a court of that level
We might see a shift and the second point that a lot of people have been talking about comes from last year from the DC
Circuit Court
and the question in that case was whether an
Undocumented immigrant enid attention was entitled to seek an abortion Cavanaugh ended up writing a dissenting opinion
Saying the court was wrong to conclude
She had the right to an immediate abortion on demand adding delaying the procedure until she could be released to a u.s
Sponsor would not impose an undue burden on the abortion, right? But like Kavanagh said back in 2006
He wrote all parties to this case recognized roe v wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey as precedents
We must follow which of course once again brought up the debate of is he saying that because he thinks it should stand in precedent
Matters or no? It's different. Once he's on that Supreme Court. No in addition to roe v wade
It's important to understand that there are other pillars on the note of privacy
We've seen Kavanagh stand behind warrantless wiretaps this including the NSA surveillance operation that Edward Snowden exposed back in 2013
And on this he wrote the government's metadata collection program is entirely consistent with the Fourth Amendment in my view that critical national security need
Outweighs the impact on privacy occasioned by this program additionally in 2010
He dissented on another court opinion this involving a case where authorities put a GPS tracker on a suspects car without a warrant having all
Saying the suspect did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his public movements and on the issue of net neutrality
It appears he is not a fan of that regulation and 2017 dissent hero just like cable operators Internet sir providers deliver content to consumers
Internet service providers may not necessarily generate much content of their own but they may decide what content they will transmit just as cable operators
Decide what content they will transmit additionally the year prior in 2016. He filed another descends on a net neutrality case
He argued that net neutrality rules were unconstitutional
He compared to the rights of cable companies not having to air certain programs because of protections under the First Amendment
It's altima lee that is where we are right now treat this as kind of an initial introduction
it's incredibly likely over the next few weeks at least that we're going to be talking about Cavanagh and a few select senators that are
going to give him the pass or fail and on the note of those senators and
Several other things is only to be very interesting to watch what happens that's where we're gonna end today's show
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