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A good deal of Wikipedia is composed by biased actors rewriting history to promote their point of view. These are often government agents, corporate representat
by yostrovs 6y ago
A good deal of Wikipedia is composed by biased actors rewriting history to promote their point of view. These are often government agents, corporate representatives, or just individuals. This is the core problem for Wikipedia that's not going away and that should be the focus of some sort of reform. I fear though none is possible given the site's format.
- orange3xchicken 6y agoOne cool solution the wikimedia research team has been working on is to apply multilingual nlp. Like, how can someone detect a discrepancy in information presented in an article written in english & the same article written in russian?
- notahacker 6y agoSeems like that'll run into the obvious problem that even without intentional bias, some pages are much more interesting and some angles much more 'notable' to some language communities than others