"And yet it turns": YouTube will fight conspiracy theories with articles on Wikipedia
YouTube and Wikipedia declared war on obscurantism. Now to each clip on YouTube with questionable content (the Earth is flat, the bullet wound can be cured by the plantain, there is no God), the moderators will attach to of the same name in Wikipedia.
Information boxes will appear only under the most resonant information guides, the list of which they borrowed from Wikipedia. Thus, YouTube wants to show an alternative point of view on an alternative point of view on all known events that cause suspicion. AT as the first example in YouTube chose the favorite theme of the landing of " Apollo " on Moon, which, according to conspiracy, never was, and all directed by Stanley Kubrick on task of the US government.
Why is it at all?
If by some miracle they missed the hype theory of a flat Earth, then ... than you in general were engaged last year? AT In general, a couple of years ago, a group of trolls began to make inroads about that the Earth is on actually flat, and physics, NASA and Galileo fooled everyone. Despite the strange evidence of the Earth's plane and disregard for basic physics course, a lot of adherents appeared. Even too much - Thematic videos now collect millions of views on YouTube, in of the same name on Reddit life is boiling both at Turkish bazaar, and on query "The Earth is Round " Google first issues a few dozen articles ala " 10 simple proofs that the Earth is round. " Last year in Carolina, even a conference of flat Earth, the ticket for which was worth $ 249, was held. So it goes.
If are you adhere to the theory of flat Earth, then probably smothered the corrupt author for verst. And you are absolutely right, on In fact, the entire Gagadget editors are reptilians who live on grants from Ilona Mask. Excuse me.
Source: The Verge