More than 80 fact checking organizations call the platform “one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide.”
-owned video platform is “one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide.”“What we do not see is much effort by YouTube to implement policies that address the problem,” the letter says. “On the contrary, YouTube is allowing its platform to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and exploit others, and to organize and fundraise themselves.”
The fact checkers are all members of the International Fact Checking Network and include Rappler in the Philippines, Africa Check, Science Feedback in France and dozens of other groups. They lambasted YouTube, saying it frames discussions about disinformation as a “false dichotomy” of deleting or not deleting content.Displaying fact-checked information is more effective than deleting content, the fact checkers wrote.
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