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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales thinks there is going to be an “enormous backlash” against Donald Trump’s lies. He said the US president is a “very talented man” and deserves credit, but the truth could eventually catch up with him come the 2020 election. Wales said his website WikiTribune is still finding its feet and is on […]
The home addresses of Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, all sitting on the Judiciary Committee, briefly appeared on Wikipedia. The edits were allegedly made from Capitol Hill. The pages of the three Republican Senators were edited as they were attending a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to listen to testimony from SCOTUS […]
Susan Gerbic’s team of over 100 editors are responsible for some of Wikipedia’s most trafficked pages about UFOs and other pseudoscience. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4d339d12ed070b75a9e07e/master/pass/wikipedia_pseudoscientific_trashure-01.jpg
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) would like Google to know that reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. The search engine showed that Hatch had died in 2017, apparently based on a bad Wikipedia edit left unchecked. “Hi Google? We might need to talk,” Hatch’s office tweeted on Monday night, with a screenshot of the […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old member of the Democratic Socialists of America, just won the Democratic primary for the New York congressional race. She defeated the incumbent Democrat, Joseph Crowley, in what’s being described as a huge upset and shake-up for the Democratic party. What’s also surprising is that she didn’t even have a Wikipedia page […]
Google admitted to an over-reliance on public sources to shield itself from accusations of political bias, after its automated algorithm listed ‘Nazism’ among the California Republican Party’s ideologies, triggering a scandal. A search for ‘California Republican Party’ on Google as late as Thursday morning listed “Nazism” as one of the party’s political ideologies in the […]
After a series of scandals related to misinformation, YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki announced the company would begin directing users to reputable sources like Wikipedia. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aa8437a9ccf76090d774fa2/master/pass/Susan-Wojcicki-542658392.jpg
There is no ideal *Homo sapiens* specimen. But the internet had to decide on something. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aa32b912ba43111d1213e0c/master/pass/akhacouple.jpg
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The Wikimedia Foundation launched Wikipedia Zero in 2012 with the hopes of democratizing information through a simple concept: cellular carriers in developing countries would offer access to its crowdsourced knowledge without charging data fees. However, it appears to have run its course. The organization has discontinued Zero with plans to phase it out through 2018. […]
