Youtube is teaming up with Wikipedia to stop Conspiracy theories

YouTube will introduce a new tool to combat online conspiracy theories in the coming weeks, the latest effort from Google’s video site to halt the spread of misinformation.
Videos propagating conspiracy theories about events, like the moon landing, will now be accompanied by text from Wikipedia providing facts that counter the theory, Susan Wojcicki, chief executive officer of YouTube, said on Wednesday.
“Our goal is to start with a list of conspiracies around the internet where there’s a lot of active discussion,” she said at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday.

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“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
? George Orwell, 1984
 
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5 thoughts on “Youtube is teaming up with Wikipedia to stop Conspiracy theories”

  1. Well conspiracy theories will finally be wiped out by the poop and the fly joining forces. Anyone using either of these govt. sites is either brain dead or is most likely living after birth.

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  2. There is no one that can prove that anyone actually went to the moon, but when someone asks for the proof they are the conspiracy theorist. So, if questioning a theory makes you a conspiracy theorist, what do you call someone that is defending a theory? Answer: That is for Google to determine

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