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Over 80 fact-checking groups urge YouTube to fight disinformation | Media News | Al Jazeera

Organisations from around the world say YouTube has become ‘one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation’.Published On 12 Jan 202212 Jan 2022More than 80 fact-checking organisations from around the world have urged YouTube to do more to tackle disinformation and not allow its online video platform “to be weaponised by unscrupulous actors”. In an open letter to YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, the groups ranging from the Kenya-based Africa Check to Politifact and the Washington Post in the United States offered to help the platform debunk false statements. “Every day, we see that YouTube is one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide,” they said, adding that videos containing false information had gone “under the radar ” of the platform’s policies, especially in non-English speaking countries. “We urge you to take effective action against disinformation and misinformation … and to do so with the world’s independent, non-partisan fact-checking organisations,” they added. “Our experience as fact-checkers together with academic evidence tells us that surfacing fact-checked information is more effective than deleting content.” Over 80 independent fact-checking organizations from all over the world have sent a letter to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, calling upon her to take…

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YouTube under fire from more than 80 fact-checking bodies for failing to halt the spread of …

Wednesday 12-01-2022 09:52 YouTube has come under attack from a group of more than 80 fact-checking organisations for failing to halt the spread of misinformation and disinformation worldwide. The groups, including The Washington Post Fact-checker in the US and UK fact-checking charity Full Fact, claim that YouTube has up until now largely escaped criticism “despite fact checkers seeing problematic content daily on the platform.”  In ab open letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki signed by the groups, they note how destructive disinformation and misinformation can be for social harmony, democracy, and public health, but say they do not see much effort by YouTube to implement policies that address the problem. “On the contrary,” the letter says, “YouTube is allowing its platform to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and exploit others, and to organize and fundraise themselves.” The letter cites examples of how YouTube has been used to spread false information, including YouTube video seen by millions that encouraged them to boycott vaccinations or treat their COVID-19 infections with bogus cures; the use of YouTube to amplify hate speech against vulnerable groups in Brazil; false content with over 2m views denying human rights abuses and corruption during the Martial law years being used…

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VIDEO: YouTube star BeardMeatsFood takes on Doncaster restaurant's belly busting …

BeardMeatsFood gets ready to take on the breakfast challenge at the Tattooed Goose.Customers have been taking on the £30 mammoth breakfast at the town’s Tattooed Goose for more than three years – and no-one had managed to clear the gargantuan plate, stacked high with sausages, hash browns, bacon, eggs, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread and toast.But the YouTuber, whose real name is Adam Moran, became the first person to polish off the brekkie inside 30 minutes – meeting the deadline with just seconds to spare.The former banker from Leeds visited the restaurant, which is situated inside the Hallcross pub in Hall Gate for the ‘B*tch Please Challenge” – and the video of his efforts has been viewed more than 650,000 times.Sign up to our daily newsletterThe i newsletter cut through the noiseThe dish includes ‘six of everything’ – and has defeated scores of confident diners over the past few years.The clip shows him being presented with the belly-busting breakfast by owner Ste McGuire and he dives straight in, scooping up the venue’s meaty sausages with his hands.With six of everything on the plate to get through, by the middle of the challenge, Adam admits things are starting to…

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