Facebook Taps Wikipedia For New Info Panel In Search Results
When you search something on Google -- a popular celebrity, for example -- you'll see an information panel that includes relevant details at a glance:…
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Facebook's Fake News Fight Takes Publisher Check Nationwide
Facebook is expanding its fake news fighting publisher info system across the social network, offering readers background insight before they decide whether or not to… -
Wikipedia Didn't Know It Was YouTube's Conspiracy Theory Fix
YouTube may be looking to combat fake news and conspiracy theories by embedding Wikipedia information, but the tactic came as a total surprise to the… -
YouTube Tackles Conspiracy Videos By Adding Wikipedia Info
At South by Southwest (SXSW), YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the company will take on conspiracy theories by linking to information from Wikipedia. This… -
Bitcoin Aims For eBay And Wikipedia
News of eBay's switch from Paypal sent both stocks reeling at the tail end of January 2018 - now there's word that eBay's new partner… -
Wikipedia For iPhone X Gets Beautiful New Dark Mode
Wikipedia has released an update for its iOS app, bringing it up to version 5.7.3. With this version comes a sleek new "Black" mode that… -
Wikipedia Deploys AI To Fight Spam And Troll Edits
Wikipedia has revealed that it recently began using artificial intelligence (AI) in order detect and eliminate article edits that contain spam or false information from… -
Russia Bans Wikipedia For Drug Reference, Reverses Decision Hours Later
It seems the Russian government hasn't changed its stance on internet censorship following the recent, and brief, ban of the website Reddit. Beginning late on… -
NYPD Computers Used To Edit Wikipedia Entries On Police Brutality
It's not unheard of for companies, politicians, and other famous people to be caught making edits to their own Wikipedia pages in order to appear… -
NSA Sued Over Surveillance By Wikimedia & More
The NSA may be used to lurking in the shadows and quietly reading our emails, but the ACLU and Wikimedia Foundation aren't willing to let… -
Wikipedia Monument Built In Poland
Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that can be seen as both one of the most impressive collections of human knowledge, available to anyone, for free,… -
Wikipedia Is Rolling In Bitcoin Donations
Bitcoin may be variously misunderstood and mistrusted by financial regulators, but users of the virtual currency are clearly also Wikipedia fans, if the first batch…
