With the 2024 European Parliamentary Elections quick approaching (sixth to ninth of June 2024), YouTube has outlined its newest measures to counter potential misinformation, and make sure that voters are well-informed as they head to the polls.

And the measures could possibly be a precursor to what we will anticipate to see for the upcoming U.S. election, with enhanced instruments and processes designed to facilitate extra correct info move.

First off, YouTube’s including new info panels that can direct customers within the EU to Google’s “how one can vote” and “how one can register to vote” options.

As you possibly can see within the second screenshot above, YouTube will even now direct viewers in direction of official information on candidates after they conduct a search utilizing their title, whereas it’s going to additionally show reminders of the place and how one can vote within the remaining weeks of the marketing campaign.

The final picture above exhibits a brand new election day message that will probably be exhibited to EU customers on movies associated to the EU elections.

YouTube will even show reside outcomes on the primary web page of the web site and app, sourced from official suppliers.

When it comes to moderation, YouTube says that its international crew of reviewers has been working for months to get forward of rising points and traits that would impression the EU elections, whereas it’ll even be making use of superior machine studying methods to detect potential points.

YouTube additionally highlights its new AI disclosure guidelines, which is able to assist to spotlight and deter artificial content material.

Together, these measures ought to assist to offer extra transparency, and hold YouTube customers knowledgeable within the election interval. However unhealthy actors will probably be making an attempt to affect individuals, with AI, specifically, anticipated to see an increase in utilization this yr.

As such, the EU elections will allow YouTube to check its capability to fight, which is able to then allow it to enact extra processes forward of future polls.