YouTube Will Link Directly to Wikipedia to Fight Conspiracy Theories

Published: March 15, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

After the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February, the top trending video on YouTube wasn\u2019t a news clip about the tragedy but a conspiracy theory video suggesting survivor David Hogg was an actor. The video garnered 200,000 views before YouTube removed it from its platform. Until now, the company hasn\u2019t said much about how it plans to handle the spread of that sort of misinformation moving forward. On Tuesday, however, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki detailed a potential solution.