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In June, YouTube introduced its new community notes feature. This feature enables viewers to submit brief blurbs to add extra context or correct information related to specific video content. The rollout of this feature precedes the US presidential election. While there is no official launch date yet, YouTube has included instructions on how to write and submit notes in its “Help” database. We have also contacted Google for comments on this new feature. Currently, the pilot program is available only in English and for mobile devices in the US, as stated on the support page. YouTube has mentioned that participants will be selected via email or their Creator Studios account. This select group of test subjects will give feedback on the notes’ usefulness—whether they are “helpful,” “somewhat helpful,” or “unhelpful”—to assist the platform in refining the feature before its public release, according to the official YouTube blog.

X has updated its Premium+ subscription tier to ensure that paying users see no advertisements at all. Previously known as Twitter, the website has announced that Premium+, which costs $16 a month in the US, is now entirely ad-free. Although one of the original perks of this tier was an ad-free For You and Following timeline, ads were still visible in other areas of the social network. Social Media Today notes that the FAQ page for X’s subscriptions used to state that the no-ads feature for Premium+ ‘does not apply to promoted content elsewhere on X, including but not limited to ads on profiles, ads in post replies, ads in Immersive Media Viewer, promoted events in Explore, promoted trends, and promoted accounts to follow