{"id":84,"date":"2022-01-20T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T14:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/?p=84"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:23:15","slug":"factchecking-organisations-call-on-youtube-ceo-to-take-action-against-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/factchecking-organisations-call-on-youtube-ceo-to-take-action-against-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Factchecking organisations call on Youtube CEO to take action against disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over 80 factchecking organisations, including EDMO Ireland partner TheJournal.ie, have signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/open-letter-youtube-5651196-Jan2022\/\">open letter<\/a> to Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki based on the platform being \u201cone of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide\u201dThe open letter also claims that Youtube is &#8220;allowing its platform to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and exploit others, and to organize and fundraise themselves&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact-checking organisations have suggested four action steps outlined below. You can view more details about the open letter and Youtube&#8217;s response in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/open-letter-to-youtube-5651116-Jan2022\/\">this article<\/a> from TheJournal.ie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-14.50.26-1024x758.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-14.50.26-1024x758.png 1024w, https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-14.50.26-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-14.50.26-768x568.png 768w, https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-14.50.26-1200x888.png 1200w, https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2022-01-20-at-14.50.26.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Four suggestions made by over 80 fact-checking organisations to address disinformation and misinformation on Youtube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 80 factchecking organisations, including EDMO Ireland partner TheJournal.ie, have signed an open letter to Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki based on the platform being \u201cone of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide\u201dThe open letter also claims that Youtube is &#8220;allowing its platform to be weaponized by unscrupulous actors to manipulate and exploit &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/factchecking-organisations-call-on-youtube-ceo-to-take-action-against-disinformation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Factchecking organisations call on Youtube CEO to take action against disinformation&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}