YouTube invites users to test its community notes feature

YouTube appears to be beginning to roll out its group notes characteristic to a choose group of customers. Screenshots of YouTube’s official invitation to hitch the pilot program for its new group correction characteristic are popping up throughout social media, in keeping with 9to5Google.

YouTube first introduced its community notes feature in June. The brand new characteristic permits viewers to submit quick blurbs that present further context or appropriate data to sure video content material. The group notes characteristic comes forward of the US presidential election.

There isn’t a official begin date for the brand new characteristic, however YouTube has added a bit to its “Help” database with directions on writing and submitting notes. We’ve additionally reached out to Google for a touch upon the brand new characteristic.

The pilot program is at the moment solely accessible in English for cell units within the US, in keeping with the assist web page. The corporate beforehand mentioned it might invite members via e-mail or their Creator Studios account. The choose group of take a look at topics will present suggestions to YouTube to assist the platform decide which notes are “useful,” “considerably useful” or “unhelpful,” earlier than rolling out its group notes characteristic to the general public, in keeping with the official YouTube blog.