Leading up to and following election day, our recommendation system prominently recommended content from trusted national and local news sources across multiple languages, including English and Spanish. Over 85% of recommendations on midterms-related topics came from authoritative news sources, such as Univision and NBC News. And we found that when people searched for news and information about the midterms, on average, more than 85% of the videos in search results came from quality news sources, such as CNN en Espanol and The Wall Street Journal. The remaining content covered topics like entertainment and finance.
We also displayed key information panels from trusted sources underneath videos and in search results about the midterms. Available in both English and Spanish, viewers were shown additional context relevant to elections content ? from more on how to vote ahead of the election to an election results panel that began surfacing on election day. In total, our election-related information panels and reminders have been shown over 2 billion times, over 100 million of which were in Spanish.