Fact checkers say YouTube lets its platform be ‘weaponised’


In a letter to CEO Susan Wojcicki published Wednesday, the groups say the Google-owned video platform is ‘one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide’. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: More than 80 fact checking organisations are calling on YouTube to address what they say is rampant misinformation on the platform.

In a letter to CEO Susan Wojcicki published Wednesday, the groups say the Google-owned video platform is “one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide”.

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