YouTube Will Add Information from Wikipedia to Videos About Conspiracies

March 14th, 2018

Via: The Verge:

YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories to provide alternative viewpoints on controversial subjects, its CEO said today. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that these text boxes, which the company is calling “information cues,” would begin appearing on conspiracy-related videos within the next couple of weeks.

Wojcicki, who spoke Tuesday evening at a panel at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, showed examples of information cues for videos about the moon landing and chemtrails. “When there are videos that are focused around something that’s a conspiracy — and we’re using a list of well-known internet conspiracies from Wikipedia — then we will show a companion unit of information from Wikipedia showing that here is information about the event,” Wojcicki said.

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3 Responses to “YouTube Will Add Information from Wikipedia to Videos About Conspiracies”

  1. Dennis says:
    March 14, 2018 at 5:56 pm

    The positive side of this?

    If you know where youtube will direct the viewer for wikipedia truthiness, you know what points to address in the video.

  2. pookie says:
    March 14, 2018 at 10:05 pm

    Will YouTube also “add information” to “conspiracy” videos when the conspiracies, such as the Parkland shooting psyop,” are shown to be, yes, actual conspiracies, or will they do like Reddit, which banned the CBTS community after the “Operation Hogg Wash” Expose was posted?

    Operation Hogg Wash Blown Wide Open

    http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=96393

    http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=96474

  3. Kevin says:
    March 15, 2018 at 1:39 am

    David Hogg forgetting his lines:

    https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=734_1519233138

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