Encyclopedia Britannica’s new Chrome extension

Google and its products, like YouTube, are beginning to utilize Wikipedia as a source for online fact-checking. In March, YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the platform would begin adding information from Wikipedia underneath videos in efforts to address the platform’s onslaught of conspiracy-related content.

As most know, Wikipedia pages can be easily edited and this makes the platform a playground for trolls. Whether it’s congressional staffers editing the Garfield page, or trolls trying to get a rise out of, well, anyone, the nonprofit Wikimedia resource sometimes lets false information stew on the platform. Recently, conservatives were in an uproar after the Google snippet for the Republican party listed “Nazism” as their ideology. The change wasn’t corrected for nearly a week.

“For 250 years, Britannica has defined what it means to provide trusted and verified information,” said Karthik Krishnan, global chief executive officer of the Britannica Group, in a press release. “With the addition of this latest extension, Britannica Insights will make it easier for everyone from kids to curious adults to professional researchers to find trustworthy results faster. Now more than ever, how we discover information matters.”