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Give your Wikipedia rabbit hole deep dives a dollop of dopamine by reading them in an 'anti-algorithm' TikTok-style feed

WikiTok keeps scrollin', scrollin', scrollin'.

PC Gamer · Feb 12, 2025

Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page

Every year of human history has a dedicated entry. But surf far enough into the future, and you’ll find evaporating oceans, planetary collisions, and the ultimate apocalypse: the Big Slurp

The Guardian - AU · Feb 10, 2025

Here’s how researchers are helping AIs get their facts straight

AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude were not designed to be accurate or factual. They regularly “hallucinate” and offer up…

The Conversation · Feb 10, 2025

Musk, Wikipedia Founder In Row Over How To Describe 'Nazi Salute'

The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute, appeared on the encyclopedic website.

International Business Times · Jan 23, 2025

Elon Musk Among Tech Billionaires Aiming to 'Defund' Wikipedia, Calling It 'An Extension of Legacy Media Propaganda'

Elon Musk and a cohort of tech billionaires are rallying together to delegitimize Wikipedia.

Latin Times · Jan 22, 2025

Elon Musk’s daughter gives fiery response to ‘Nazi salute’ accusations

Vivian Wilson, who often criticizes her estranged father, has responded to Elon Musk’s controversial gesture at Trump’s inauguration rally

The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2025

Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a ‘Nazi salute’

‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted on his social media platform X

The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2025

Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing spotlights competing approaches in fight against misinformation and hate speech

Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise the question of the effectiveness of Meta’s old policy, fact-checking, and its new one, community comments.

The Conversation · Jan 15, 2025

How to politicize the truth on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia

Control the arbiters of facts and you wield truth itself as a cudgel

The Guardian - US · Jan 14, 2025

Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, actor Mark Ruffalo, and more have endorsed Free Our Feeds.

PC Gamer · Jan 14, 2025