Study: Wikipedia has moderating influence on its contributors; articles have become increasingly politically neutral in recent years
The Internet is dotted with cesspools, also known as comments sections. Consider, for instance, the Facebook chatter surrounding a recent New York Times article about Donald Trump: Tweets: @drg1985 and @paul1kirby Tweets: David Robert Grimes / @drg1985 : I see @Wikipedia as a vital resource - highly encouraging it appears to overcome the filter bubble effecthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/ news/wonk/wp/2016/10/25/somethings- terribly-wrong-with-the-internet-and- wikipedia-might-be-able-to-fix- it/ ... Paul Kirby / @paul1kirby : Interesting new research. How Wikipedia overcame the partisan echo chambers which dominate so much of the Internethttps://www.washingtonpost.com/ news/wonk/wp/2016/10/25/somethings- terribly-wrong-with-the-internet-and- wikipedia-might-be-able-to-fix- it/ ...