Wired magazine has weighed in on the “Google labels Republicans Nazis” controversy by pointing out that the tech giant relies on Wikipedia as an authoritative source of information, though it is inaccurate and easily manipulated.
Google briefly listed “Nazism” as an official ideology of the California Republican Party, due to the search engine’s dependence on unreliable information from Wikipedia.
Facebook has attacked Breitbart News, attaching a Wikipedia smear job next to Breitbart links.
Wired wants to replace Zuck with the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, which funds the hilariously biased Wikipedia.
YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to “conspiracy theory” videos on the platform in an effort to combat alternative narratives, according to a report.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales believes the Wikipedia model can help salvage journalistic integrity, but in the year since Donald Trump took office as President of the United States, the online encyclopedia has instead proven unable to even restrain its own biased editing community.
Kickstarter-funded tabletop game Rising Sun by CMON Limited included a supposed monkey spirit from Japanese folklore named “Kotahi” as a backer-exclusive “stretch goal” piece. A year later, as the game began arriving to backers, it was learned that the “Kotahi” was actually a Wikipedia hoax named after a New Zealand teen.
Last month a preview article shared by WikiTribune, the recently launched London-based journalism project of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, was criticized for blatant anti-Trump bias in its coverage promoting a conference on the United Nations-linked Global Goals campaign.
The day after Ted Cruz posted a reference to conspiracy theories claiming he is the Zodiac Killer on Twitter, an IP tied to the U.S. Congress made edits writing out “Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer” in articles related to the Kennedy Assassination.
Following Breitbart’s previous coverage of edits made to the Antifa Wikipedia page downplaying the group’s violence, a discussion including several Antifa supporters led to the removal of language from the group’s Wikipedia entry intro noting DHS and FBI have categorized Antifa violence as terrorism.
Wikipedia featured a petty article about President Trump’s handshakes on its front page, viewed by 15 million people a day.
After President Trump condemned violence by both sides in Charlottesville, a recently-created Wikipedia article about antifa highlighting the group’s violence and far-left ideology saw a spree of edits downplaying both aspects of the group.
Wikipedia editors are scrambling to purge the site of any material that supports ex-Googler James Damore’s claims about gender.
(Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a Wikipedia lawsuit that challenges a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) program of mass online surveillance, and claims that the government unconstitutionally invades people’s privacy rights.
A UC Berkeley professor has come under fire after a Wikipedia edit project for one of his courses resulted in students branding President Donald Trump “racist” and “sexist.”
The Chinese government is recruiting up to 20,000 people to aid in the development of a Chinese Wikipedia alternative.
Istanbul authorities have withdrawn an invitation to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to attend a major conference in the city, officials said Tuesday, after Turkey blocked access to the online encyclopedia.
In a move that social media users called censorship, a Turkish court on Saturday blocked access to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, enforcing an earlier restriction by Turkey’s telecommunications watchdog.
Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey on Saturday blocked all access inside the country to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reportedly for articles claiming links between Ankara and terror groups, the latest restriction on a popular website to hit Turkish users.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has announced the launch of a new online publication called Wikitribune which aims to fight “fake news” on the internet.
A Wikipedia editor who was banned from editing articles after unsubstantiated charges of “off-site harassment” says admins have changed their initial reasoning for banning him, over a year after the fact.
Feminists at several institutions around the country are hosting Wikipedia “Edit-a-thon” events in an attempt to correct perceived biases against women on the site due to the significant amount of male editors.
An online debate over the gender of iconic cartoon cat Garfield has forced the fictional feline’s creator Jim Davis to provide a definitive explanation.
Wikipedia’s editing bots have become “locked in combat” over content in entries, according to a report by The Guardian.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donated $1 million to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies to support a five-year journalism ethics program focused on verification, fact-checking and accountability in journalism.
A Google search for the words “pathological lying” produced a photo of Hillary Clinton for over an hour on Sunday evening before the image was removed.
Infogalactic, an online encyclopedia branding itself as a censorship free alternative to Wikipedia without “bias or thought police,” has launched.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales describes his vaunted online encyclopedia as “unbiased” and “neutral. We’re not so sure about that.
Wikipedia bills itself as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” In reality, it’s a bureaucratic mess dominated by a small clique of established editors who exploit their position to bully, smear, and intimidate anyone who challenges their authority.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales condemned the Leave campaign for stoking anger against migrants.
Wikipedia editors seem unable to agree upon whether or not the Orlando Pulse Nightclub Shooting was in fact an Islamist terrorist attack.
A veteran Wikipedia editor who was suspended from the site without reason in January is now asking Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for answers about his removal.
The Wikipedia page for the Bin Laden-supporting activist has been edited more times in the past 24 hours than in the past two years.
Lila Tretikov is leaving her position as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation in the midst of turmoil over lack of communication about the non-profit’s plans.
Parent company of Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation, has finally released details of an in-development search engine after receiving a grant of $250,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
At a time when Internet censorship has turned into a perceived #WAR against certain groups of people, a new hero has seemingly emerged as a siren for the masses. Everipedia, also known as “Thug Wikipedia” to the insiders–which includes everyone by design–is the unannounced, and impossible to ignore, lovechild of the popular online encyclopedia and Facebook.
Sick green activists have been gloating over the death of Bob Carter, the heroic climate sceptic geologist who died of a heart attack earlier this week. Here’s a selection of nasties from Australia, where Carter worked. (Knowing Bob I’m sure
Last week, Breitbart Tech reported on the suspension of a long-term editor at Wikipedia. The site’s arbitration committee accused him of harassment, but failed to produce any evidence of these potentially criminal charges, or give the editor a chance to challenge them.
Last week, Breitbart Tech brought you news of an extraordinary explusion of a Wikipedia editor, who was banned for alleged off-site “harassment,” despite the fact that no evidence of such behaviour was presented to the public.
Wikipedia, the world’s most popular online encyclopedia, is facing controversy after banning a long-time editor for “off-site harassment.” No details of the alleged offence were given to other Wikipedians, who now accuse the site’s quasi-official disciplinary committee of lacking transparency.