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wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 12 days ago

Wiki Wars: Editors and propagandists are fighting for influence over the online encyclopedia’s most controversial entries

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Wiki Wars: Editors and propagandists are fighting for influence over the online encyclopedia’s most controversial entries

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wikipediasuckscoop@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 12 days ago
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This past March, researchers from the Anti-Defamation League accused Wikipedia of biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They found that a group of editors had coordinated to produce thousands of anti-Israel entries, and that the platform’s administration had failed to respond. This is not the first example of biased parties abusing Wikipedia’s editorial policies. A variety of Wiki sections in multiple languages have been subjected to organized “raids” carried out by state propagandists, far-right activists, and even terrorist supporters. Some critics believe that the Web's main encyclopedia needs reforms, such as the introduction of user verification. Others doubt such measures will help, questioning the viability of collective content moderation in the digital age. Meanwhile, Wikipedia is gaining unprecedented influence as a training dataset for major AI language models, and distortions in its content have already affected the responses that the resulting chat tools give.
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    What a garbage article.

    ADL is a propaganda machine, not a reliable source. https://truthout.org/articles/its-time-to-break-with-the-adl-as-a-source-for-news-and-research-on-extremism/

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