YouTube launches its own version of X/Twitter Community Notes

Finally, a Google-owned company is stealing something worthwhile. YouTube announced today that it's begun experimenting with its own version of Community Notes, the feature that X/Twitter pioneered whereby the user community fact-checks and brings additional context to posts.

Of course, there's not a snowball's chance in hell these YouTube notes will on the whole be unbiased, but I'm getting distracted. First, the announcement itself from YouTube begins as follows: "Starting today, we are...