Warning for YouTube users as experts claim app is being used to ‘manipulate and exploit’ in damning open letter

YOUTUBE has been accused of permitting its platform to be "weaponized" resulting in viewers being "manipulated and exploited".

Over 80 fact-checking organizations from all over the world have made these claims in an open letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

YouTube's strategy to misinformation has been known as out by truth checkersCredit score: Getty

The letter states: "YouTube is permitting its platform to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to govern and exploit others, and to arrange and fundraise themselves.

"We urge you to take efficient motion towards disinformation and misinformation, and to elaborate a roadmap of coverage and product interventions to enhance the knowledge ecosystem — and to take action with the world's impartial, non-partisan fact-checking organizations."

The group additionally made a lot of suggestions on how YouTube might approve its strategy to misinformation.

Issues like offering extra context to movies or not permitting misinformation spreaders to become profitable from their content material have been instructed.

YouTube claims to work with a whole lot of publishers to direct customers to truth checked data from authorities.

For instance, when a YouTube person within the US searches for "Covid-19", they will see a hyperlink to data from the US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.

YouTube additionally pushes what it considers to be authoritative information sources to the highest of the movies offered.

The platform additionally bans creators and deletes sure movies if they're deemed as dangerous or deceptive.

Conspiracy theorist David Icke had his YouTube channel deleted in 2020 after being accused of spreading misinformation about Covid-19.

The open letter acknowledged that YouTube is making an attempt to fight some misinformation however stated it is falling in need of doing so.

The letter requested for YouTube to work with fact-checking organizations and "publish its full moderation coverage concerning disinformation and misinformation, together with using synthetic intelligence and which knowledge powers it."

US organizations that signed the letter embrace FactCheck.org and The Washington Submit Truth-checker.

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