Fact-checkers urge YouTube to fight disinformation

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More than 80 fact-checking organisations Wednesday urged YouTube to better combat disinformation.

More than 80 fact-checking organisations have urged YouTube to better combat disinformation, saying it is 'one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide'More than 80 fact-checking organisations Wednesday urged online video platform YouTube to better combat disinformation, offering to help debunk false statements.

Videos containing false information had gone"under the radar of YouTube's policies, especially in non-English speaking countries", they said in an open letter to YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki. "Our experience as fact-checkers together with academic evidence tells us that surfacing fact-checked information is more effective than deleting content."

 

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These 'fact-checkers' need to go back where they came from. We all know who pays them. It's about protecting the money men from being exposed for wrongdoings because they are genuinely above the law. Not misinformation.

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