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Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing spotlights competing approaches in fight against misinformation and hate speech

Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise the question of the effectiveness of Meta’s old policy, fact-checking, and its new one, community comments.

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How to politicize the truth on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia

Control the arbiters of facts and you wield truth itself as a cudgel

The Guardian - US

Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of dollars'

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, actor Mark Ruffalo, and more have endorsed Free Our Feeds.

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The dynamics that polarise us on social media are about to get worse

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes in how the company addresses misinformation across Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Instead of relying on independent third-party factcheckers, Meta will now emulate Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) in using “community notes”. These crowdsourced contributions allow users to flag content they…

The Conversation

From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages

With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them

The Guardian - UK

'No More Donations to Wikipedia': Elon Musk Slams Site Over Alleged Erroneous Deletions to Bill Clinton's Page

Musk quote-retweeted a video from the user @BGatesIsaPyscho and stated, 'No more donations to @Wikipedia until they start being truthful'.

International Business Times UK

Can animals make ‘art’? These examples from nature suggest so

According to Britannica, “art” can be described as something “consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination” – whereas Wikipedia defines it more narrowly as a human activity. But are humans the only species that makes art?

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Fact check: Misleading Google search results on UK asylum seeker crime rate

Full Fact has seen what appear to be screenshots of Google results on this topic shared on social media in recent months.

The Independent UK

Ferns’ ability to evolve ‘backward’ offers insights into the meandering path of evolution

Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its predecessors. This is the process of evolution in its simplest form: descent with modification.

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How to catch a supernova explosion before it happens – and what we can learn from it

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies on nuclear fusion — primarily using hydrogen as fuel — to generate energy and counteract the…

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70 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird

Bad lunches, questionably graded tests, and the horrifying state of school bathrooms – all things that show how messed up the US education system really is. The post 70 Horrifying Things From American Schools That Foreigners Find Shockingly Weird first appeared on Bored Panda.

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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Thursday, December 12 (#550)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #550 on December 12.

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NYT Connections today hints and answers — Wednesday, December 11 (#549)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #549 on December 11.

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Seven things we learned from the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

And breathe. Formula 1's 24-race marathon is done, dusted, and to be firmly ensconced in the history books; it's already gone from present to past tense on Wikipedia.

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Most Visited Wikipedia Pages In 2024: Trump, Harris, Musk, Swift, Politics And Netflix Dominate List

Wikipedia has released a list of the top 25 visited pages in 2024. A look at the list and trends like politics and entertainment dominating the list.

Fortune

Exclusive: Corpora.ai unveils a new AI 'research engine'

It's among a growing crop of AI tools aimed at researchers. But inaccurate summaries remain an issue.

Latin Times

The Latino Criminals Among Wikipedia's Top Searches For 2024

The 25 most-searched pages on Wikipedia went from U.S. political events, sports, pop culture, and true crime.

The Independent UK

Morrissey hits out at Wikipedia for failing to ‘set the record straight’

Singer shared a brief statement from his personal website about the apparent errors

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As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction

The original idea for the world wide web emerged in a flurry of scientific thought around the end of World War II. It began with a hypothetical machine called the “memex”, proposed by US Office of Scientific Research and Development head Vannevar Bush in an article entitled As We May…

The Guardian - AU

AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit

Artificial intelligence doesn’t just incrementally erode the rights of authors and other creators. These technologies are designed to replace creative workers altogether

PC Gamer

Yawnoc is a new wave-based roguelike where killing your enemies the wrong way could send them growing out of control, and it's dirt cheap right now

I'm just as bad at the Game of Life as I am at the game of life.

The Conversation

People do care about extinct species, but not for long – new study

Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only his final breath but the final breath of his entire species, the Pinta Island tortoise, as it faded into extinction.

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Wikipedia ‘put on notice’ by centre over ‘bias’ amid ANI defamation hearing

While the Delhi High Court is hearing ANI’s defamation suit against Wikipedia, several media reports citing anonymous sources have claimed that the centre has put “Wikipedia on notice” over “many complaints of bias and inaccuracies” and a small group’s control over its editorial.

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The 27 Club isn’t true, but it is real − a sociologist explains why myths endure and how they shape reality

There’s a certain allure to the notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27. The so-called 27 Club has captivated the public imagination for half a century. Its members include legendary musicians Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.…

Evening Standard

Heretic review: even Hugh Grant can't save this horror hokum

2/5 The foppish national treasure has been lumped in with a wave of English stars vying for Oscars glory, but this tedious horror nonsense surely isn’t his vehicle to victory

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