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Fast Forward ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism
Wikipedia editors argued that ADL tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism
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News Conservative Israeli think tank uses fake accounts to skew Wikipedia
Kohelet Policy Forum worker secretly operated five 'sock puppet' accounts, skewing debates and articles about Israel’s judicial overhaul and other contentious issues
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Opinion To fix Wikipedia’s Holocaust denial, we must start by naming names
Anonymity on the do-it-yourself encyclopedia fuels constant misinformation
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Opinion The shocking truth about Wikipedia’s Holocaust disinformation
Why Wikipedia cannot be trusted: It repeatedly allows rogue editors to rewrite Holocaust history and make Jews out to be the bad guys
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Fast Forward Wikipedia disciplines editors in Holocaust distortion dispute but sidesteps debate over Polish complicity
The online encyclopedia didn’t take a position on the underlying dispute over Polish antisemitism and complicity with the Nazis, instead focused on whether editors adhered to the community’s code of conduct
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News New research documents show Wikipedia distorts the Holocaust
Historians have found that the English-language version of the online encyclopedia often quotes dubious sources that serve a false narrative, which glorifies the help Poles gave to Jews during the Shoah and minimizes their part in their extermination
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Culture Wikipedia fixed its swastika problem fast. Why can’t anyone else?
Hate speech is notoriously hard to police online, and nearly every major social media platform has been criticized in the recent past for allowing disinformation and hate to proliferate on their platforms. Wikipedia, meanwhile, got a hacker’s swastikas off of its site in under five minutes. On Monday morning, a Wikipedia template was vandalized, impacting…
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News ADL may have violated Wikipedia rules — editing its own entries
The Anti-Defamation League has paused a project in which its staff members edited Wikipedia using pseudonyms after coming under fire from Wikipedia editors for potentially violating rules regarding conflicts of interest. The ADL launched an effort last spring to train some of its employees to contribute to Wikipedia articles but it wasn’t until late last…
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