Cómo un pequeño grupo de activistas pro-israelíes incluyó en la lista negra a MintPress en Wikipedia

Durante más de diez años, Wikipedia ha sido un foco clave de los grupos pro-israelíes que se inclinan hacia la derecha y que han armado efectivamente la enciclopedia en línea como un medio para controlar la narrativa cuando se trata del estado del ejército israelí de más de 50 años. ocupación de Palestina.

Whitney Webb
Por Whitney Webb
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For over a decade, pro-Israel and ultra-nationalist Israeli settler groups have sought to weaponize the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, through concerted covert editing campaigns, offering Wikipedia editing courses to West Bank settlers and even formal alliances between Israel and Wikipedia to allow Israelis to create and edit content in a

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Phillip Cross: The Mystery Wikipedia Editor dirigido a sitios contra la guerra

Se han realizado 133,612 ediciones a Wikipedia en nombre de "Philip Cross" durante 14 años, la mayoría de ellas dirigidas a sitios web y activistas contra la guerra de izquierda.

Media Lens
Por Media Lens
Wikipedia

In June, the BBC reported that someone operating under the name 'Philip Cross' had been extraordinarily active in editing Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit: Philip Cross" has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia pages. But in the process he's angered anti-war activists and critics of British and Western foreign

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YouTube Deputizes Wikipedia in Bid to Police ‘Conspiracy Theories’

As search engines’ and social networks’ power to mediate information access grows – along with their ability to gather vast amounts of user data and intelligence – the anxiety has also increased for vested interests and governments unable to cope with the disruptive effect of the once-freewheeling “online marketplace of ideas.”

Elliott Gabriel
Por Elliott Gabriel
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, speaks during the introduction of YouTube TV at YouTube Space LA in Los Angeles, Feb. 28, 2017. (AP/Reed Saxon)

AUSTIN, TEXAS – YouTube is apparently planning to deputize crowd-sourced online encyclopedia Wikipedia in a bid to combat the spread of disinformation, according to its CEO Susan Wojcicki. “When there are videos that are focused around something that’s a conspiracy -- and we’re using a list of well-known internet conspiracies from Wikipedia --

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