(RT) — YouTube's curation team are able to promote even non-trending videos on the platform by "using some kind of intervention" into algorithms controlling the website. This allows specific news organizations to be favored, Project Veritas revealed.

Investigative group Project Veritas secretly filmed Earnest Pettie, the Brand and Diversity Curation Lead at YouTube, who said he works "on a team that does provide some human inputs into a lot of the machinery of YouTube." This would mean that videos from specific news sources could be made to appear at the top of search results.

Petite explained how YouTube's so-called news carousel is formed: "It's above the search results, so at the very least, we can say this shelf of videos from news partners is legitimate news because we know that these are legitimate news organizations."