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→Removal of the dislike count on videos: Removed claims that the dislike count was removed on initiative of the White House under the Biden Administration. Cited source, a US-based far-right commentary website, contains only unsubstatiated speculation on the topic and has a history of spreading false information (see eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Media#False_claims). |
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===Removal of the dislike count on videos=== | ===Removal of the dislike count on videos=== | ||
On November 10 2021, YouTube removed the public dislike count from all of its videos. Creators are still be able to view dislike counts on their videos through the YouTube Studio website and app.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An update to dislikes on YouTube |url=https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305223738/https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ |archive-date=2025-03-05 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=YouTube Official Blog}}</ref> | On November 10 2021, YouTube removed the public dislike count from all of its videos. Creators are still be able to view dislike counts on their videos through the YouTube Studio website and app.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An update to dislikes on YouTube |url=https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305223738/https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ |archive-date=2025-03-05 |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=YouTube Official Blog}}</ref> | ||
According to YouTube. this was implemented after user testing revealed that users were less likely to feel incentivised to actively try and manipulate the dislike count on videos if the dislike count was not visible to them.<ref>{{Cite web |last=The YouTube Team |date=2021-11-10 |title=An update to dislikes on YouTube |url=https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=YouTube Official Blog}}</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||