[citation needed] In 2007, Google introduced Knol, a direct competitor for community-driven encyclopedia creation, which was subsequently shut down in 2012.
Google later supported Wikimedia with numerous grants, and came to rely on Wikipedia for addressing the problem of misinformation on YouTube, providing verifiable and well-sourced information to those seeking it.
A large amount of the information presented in the knowledge panel infoboxes is retrieved from Wikipedia and the CIA World Factbook.
[13] In March 2018, YouTube announced that they would be using information from Wikipedia to address the problem of misinformation on the website.
They contain information sourced directly from Wikipedia, along with other websites such as Encyclopædia Britannica, The World Factbook, the Associated Press, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.