Interview with Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation's next CEO, on the org's transparency, handling misinformation on Wikipedia pages, and more
Two decades ago, Wikipedia arrived on the scene as a quirky online project that aimed to crowdsource and document all of human knowledge and history in real time. Tweets: @djparekh , @worklifereward ,...
NYU study: from August 2020 to January 2021, publishers known for putting out misinfo got six times more engagement than trustworthy news sources like WHO
Right-leaning pages also produce more misinformation, the forthcoming study found. — A new study of user behavior on Facebook around … Tweets: @kevinroose , @lizzadwoskin , @justinhendrix , @froomki...
Kang-Xing Jin, friend of Mark Zuckerberg and long-time Facebook employee, is leading efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about coronavirus on the site
As the company works to contain coronavirus misinformation, Facebook's head of health steps into the spotlight. Tweets: @tonyromm , @peterbotting , @blmohr , @vincekuraitis , @ccheever , @chrissyfarr ...
Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference citing COVID-19 concerns; event organizers say the conference is proceeding as planned
with fewer panels and smaller crowds Tweets: @austin360 : Amazon Studios has canceled events at #SXSW, according to a Variety report https://www.austin360.com/... Jeremy Kaplan / @smashdawg : Intel's ...
Facebook will curb vaccine misinformation by reducing the ranking of anti-vaccine Pages and groups, halting recommendations for those pages, rejecting ads, more
and dumber—Facebook announces crackdown Louise Matsakis / Wired : Facebook Will Crack Down on Anti-Vaccine Content Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : Facebook decides to quarantine anti vaxxers Napier Lo...
Pinterest says it's stopped returning vaccine-related search results as most spread anti-vax disinformation, part of its broader approach against “false cures”
The anti-vaccination movement has become so widespread that the World Health Organization added it to its list of the top threats to global health in 2019.
WHO to add gaming addiction as a medical condition to the International Classification of Diseases, its highly regarded compendium of medical conditions
but there's reason to be skeptical Kevin Loria / Business Insider : ‘Gaming disorder’ has been classified as a mental health condition by the World Health Organization … Larry Dignan / ZDNet : WHO see...