Editing Wikipedia (section)

=== Trusted source to combat fake news ===
In 2017–18, after a barrage of false news reports, both Facebook and YouTube announced they would rely on Wikipedia to help their users evaluate reports and reject false news.<ref name=":20" /><ref name="auto" /> [[Noam Cohen]], writing in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' states, "YouTube's reliance on Wikipedia to set the record straight builds on the thinking of another fact-challenged platform, the Facebook social network, which announced last year that Wikipedia would help its users root out '[[fake news]]'."<ref name="auto">{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=Noam|author-link=Noam Cohen |date=April 7, 2018 |title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the 'good cop' of the Internet |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Constine |first=Josh |date=April 3, 2018 |title=Facebook fights fake news with author info, rolls out publisher context |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/facebook-author-info/|access-date=July 15, 2021 |website=[[TechCrunch]]}}</ref>