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.

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.

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 ...

YouTube is offloading its responsibility to curb the distribution of dangerous content onto Wikipedia. The company’s executives don’t want to define YouTube as a media platform, so they can ...

YouTube announced an initiative to combat misinformation on the platform at SXSW, but didn't tell of one of the myth-busters, Wikipedia.

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.

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 ...

Specifically, YouTube plans to start adding "information cues," including text boxes that link to third-party sources like Wikipedia, to videos covering hoaxes and conspiracy theories.

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 ...

While videos on YouTube about the Oklahoma City bombing all appear to include a link to the Encyclopedia Britannica page about the terrorist attack, videos about who was behind the Sept. 11, 2001 ...