As social confusion due to fake news and conspiracy theories deepens, major platform companies such as YouTube are effectively allowing confusion to worsen by reducing or abolishing fact-checking functions that block false information. Experts point out that platforms should reexamine their fact-checking policies in order to expand their territory and grow technologically.

Platforms have become the main route for news consumption. According to the Korea Press Foundation's '2024 Media User Survey', the rate of news and current affairs information usage through Internet portals was 72.2%, tying for first place with television. 65.1% of respondents said that social media such as YouTube and Instagram play the role of the media.

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Choi Jae-sik, a professor at the AI ​​Graduate School of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), said, “If false information is included in a data set, the artificial intelligence (AI) may learn incorrect information, which may lower its reliability.” He added, “As a result, this may have a negative impact on the reliability and market share of not only the AI ​​but also the platform that utilizes it.”

There is also analysis that fact-checking activation will lead to the long-term growth of the platform. This is because fact-checking can lead to the mass production of high-quality data on the platform, thereby increasing the reliability of the platform and improving the quality of LLM's learning data set.

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