![]() ![]() Fact-checkers also rejected YouTube’s attempts to frame the debate as a false choice between deleting or not deleting videos. "This can be done by setting meaningful and structured collaboration with fact-checking organisations and investing in their work," they wrote.Īcting against repeat offenders who produce content that is constantly flagged as disinformation and preventing their videos from being recommended or promoted by the company’s algorithms was the third demand, while extending those efforts to languages different from English, and providing country- and language-specific data, as well as effective transcription services was the fourth demand. This is a significant concern among our global fact-checking community," they added.įact-checking organisations have sent four demands to YouTube’s CEO that include exercising 'meaningful transparency' about how disinformation travels on the platform and publicly disclose its policies to address it and focusing on providing context instead of deleting videos. "As an international network of fact-checking organisations, we monitor how lies spread online and everyday, we see that YouTube is one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide. The world has seen time and time again how destructive disinformation and misinformation can be for social harmony, democracy, and public health too many lives and livelihoods have been ruined, and far too many people have lost loved ones to disinformation," the fact checkers stated in their letter. "It has been almost two years since the Covid-19 pandemic started. They emphasised in their letter that the situation is even worse in non-English speaking countries and in the global south, where policies are even less exercised. ![]() The fact checkers are of the opinion that the policies put in place by YouTube to combat disinformation are 'insufficient' and 'not working'. ![]()
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