YouTube is taking further action to fight the spread of conspiracy theories. A new feature -- which is currently being piloted in India for search queries in both English and Hindi -- will showcase fact-checking cards when people search for sensitive topics, BuzzFeed reports.
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YouTube Continues Conspiracy Crackdown With Fact-Checking Cards On Search Results
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"It's not polite to treat Wikipedia like an endlessly renewable resource with infinite free labor; what's the impact?" one prominent community member said on Twitter.
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YouTube To Clamp Down On Conspiracy Theories With Wikipedia-Sourced Text Boxes
Links to Wikipedia articles will appear in new text boxes called “information cues” in coming weeks, and will be used for conspiracies with notable social relevance.
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