Wikipedia never claimed to be perfect, and isn't. But YouTube is far from the first tech company, or even the first social platform, to use Wikipedia's content for its own goals.

March 14, 2018 / 5:55 PM EDT / CBS Philadelphia By Kaya Yurieff AUSTIN (CNN) — YouTube says it will soon use Wikipedia to help fight videos that promote conspiracy theories and misinformation.

One problem: Nobody at YouTube bothered to tell the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, and it’s beginning to look like YouTube isn’t trying to fix its problems, just pass the buck.

YouTube Will Fight Spread of Conspiracy Videos With Links to Wikipedia Published Mar 14, 2018 at 9:45 AM EDT Updated Mar 14, 2018 at 9:46 AM EDT ...

YouTube, the video network that has come under fire for an algorithm that can be easily tricked by conspiracy theorists looking for an audience, has turned to Wikipedia for validation.

YouTube is linking Wikipedia pages to videos that contain conspiracy-related materials. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki spoke on a South by Southwest (SXSW) panel detailing how the "information cues ...

At SXSW, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would start adding information from Wikipedia to conspiracy-related videos within the next few weeks. According to Wikimedia, this ...

For anybody familiar with Wikipedia, however, there's a glaring problem: Literally anybody can edit its archive. It's worth looking at a page that will most likely be cited a lot during YouTube's ...

YouTube will be adding fact-based links in conspiracy theory videos to dispel false information presented to users. This is YouTube's latest move in a fight against misinformation.