At 20, Wikipedia has become a refuge from Big Tech's misinfo

At 20, Wikipedia has become a refuge from Big Tech's misinformation


At 20, Wikipedia has become a refuge from Big Tech's misinformation
CNET
1/15/2021
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As Election Day turned into Election Week in the US, Facebook , Twitter and YouTube found themselves trying to avert disaster. President Donald Trump had declared victory and baselessly alleged election fraud, even though battleground states continued to count mail-in ballots. The president's supporters ricocheted his bogus claims across social media. 
On Wikipedia, however, the 2020 US Presidential Election page was locked like a fortress. The race remained uncalled on the page until news outlets declared a winner the following Saturday. The success was partly the result of a disinformation task force assembled by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia. 

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