The foundation which operates the Wikipedia information website said Wednesday an EU court ruling on the right to be forgotten is creating memory holes in the Internet. The ruling is undermining the worlds ability to freely access accurate and verifiable records about individuals and events, said Lila Tretikov, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in […]
Wikipedia has published their Transparency Report, including information about the numerous takedown requests they receive. In the report, Wikipedia makes it abundantly clear that they are not in the business of taking down valid information simply because someone wants them to. Wikipedia received 304 takedown requests from July 2012 to June 2014 — none of […]
A Twitter bot that keeps watch on Wikipedia pages edited by those inside the Russian government spotted major changes to an entry about yesterdays crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed all 298 people on board. The Telegraph reports that a Russian language page about Boeing 777 accidents that mentioned flight MH17 initially included language pointing […]
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