YouTube adds a news page on its mobile apps to suggest content from "authoritative sources", and plans to spend $1.6M to promote the creation of news on Shorts (Jon Porter/The Verge)

Jon Porter / The Verge:

YouTube adds a news page on its mobile apps to suggest content from “authoritative sources”, and plans to spend $1.6M to promote the creation of news on Shorts  —  YouTube is embracing news from “authoritative sources” at a time when Meta is reluctant to promote hard news or politics …