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 response to 9to5Google.

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

There isn’t any official begin date for the brand new characteristic, however YouTube has added a piece 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 presently solely out there in English for cell gadgets within the US, in response to the help web page. The corporate beforehand mentioned it will invite members by means of electronic mail or their Creator Studios account. The choose group of check 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 response to the official YouTube blog.