The latter states that YouTube allows itself to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors who share manipulative information for various causes. Thus, they now ask YouTube to make suitable changes to operate better accordingly.
A Letter of Accusation to YouTube
This week, a letter signed by more than 80 fact-checking organizations from over 40 countries was sent to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, who blamed the video-sharing platform for not effectively controlling the spread of misinformation and disinformation on its platform. Also Read- YouTube Released its First-Ever Copyright Transparency Report While misinformation is false information that’s not actually intended to cause harm, disinformation, on the other hand, is also some kind of false information intended to cause harm. And the fact-checking organizations like Full Fact from the UK, Washington Post Fact Checker, Spain’s Maldita, India Today have written; They started this by calling YouTube a “major conduit” for falsehoods and urged the platform to make below four changes; While YouTube has yet to implement all these measures, its spokesperson, Elena Hernandez, replied to this letter saying they have invested heavily in various products and policies that connect people to “authoritative content, reduce the spread of borderline misinformation, and remove violative videos.” Yet, the misinformation prevails.
