The workshops are hosted by veteran YouTube creators who focus on youth culture, diversity and education.

The streaming video giant certainly isn't expecting to eliminate the spread of fake news among teens just by running a handful of events. Rather, this is one piece of a larger strategy -- it's a bid to encourage both creators and concerned fans to take action when they'd otherwise sit on the sidelines. And as Wired notes, this is arguably an attempt to patch things up after YouTube's Restricted Mode inadvertently censored LGBTQ+ material. The move theoretically shows that YouTube is interested in promoting videos from a wide range of people, and that it wants to fight online hate speech whenever possible.