Soon, YouTube will display Wikipedia blurbs alongside conspiracy videos

Wednesday, 14 March 2018 (21 hours ago)
Soon, YouTube will display Wikipedia blurbs alongside conspiracy videos

YouTube will begin displaying text from Wikipedia articles and other websites alongside some videos in a couple of weeks as the unit of Alphabet Inc's Google attempts to combat hoaxes and conspiracy theories on the service, its chief executive said.

Susan Wojcicki, speaking on stage at the South by Southwest Conference in...

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YouTube is teaming up with Wikipedia to combat conspiracy theories by linking Wikipedia pages to videos that contain conspiracy-related materials. Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke on a South by Southwest (SXSW) panel detailing how the "information cues" would operate. The information cues would...