Global Fact-Checking Group Calls Out Youtube's Handling of Misinformation
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12 January 2022 22:54 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - In an open letter aimed at Youtube CEO Susan Wojcickihe, an International fact-checking network that consists of more than 80 global organizations, including Tempo, voiced their concern for the video-sharing platform giant’s role in the worldwide online disinformation and misinformation.
In the letter, they had deemed Youtube “one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide.”
“It’s been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started. 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 letter opened as published at the Poynter Institute website on January 12.
The fact-checking network stated they failed to see efforts from Youtube to implement policies that address the problem. They argue that the platform instead allows itself to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and exploit others, as well as to organize and fundraise themselves.
They further elaborate that “Current measures are proving insufficient. That is why we urge you to take effective action against disinformation and misinformation and to elaborate a roadmap of policy and product interventions to improve the information ecosystem – and to do so with the world’s independent, non-partisan fact-checking organizations.”
Wojcicki is urged to take effective action against disinformation and misinformation and to elaborate a roadmap of policy and product interventions to improve the information ecosystem.