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BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Newsletter Signup Technology By AJ Dellinger 03/14/18 AT 3:02 PM As technology firms continue to try to bolster their defenses against fake news, YouTube reportedly plans to introduce information from Wikipedia articles to combat the spread of conspiracy theory videos on the platform.TechCrunch reported YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told a South by Southwest panel Tuesday that the streaming video host will soon launch “information cues”— pop-up text boxes that will contain sourced information from Wikipedia that may dispel the unsourced claims of conspiracy videos. YouTube will use information from Wikipedia in attempts to combat conspiracy theories. Photo: Kaufdex/Pixabay According to Wojcicki, the informative pop-ups will appear between the video and the video title and description, giving the information prominent placement as the viewer watches the video.The boxes are expected to be … [Read more...] about YouTube Plans To Use Wikipedia To Fight Conspiracy Videos

WIKIPEDIA was last night named and shamed for not bothering to turn up to an emergency Government summit on how to tackle self-harm online. Tech giants including Google and Facebook agreed to fund the Samaritans and to sign up to a new code of practice to take down harmful content at the meeting. But ministers were left fuming with Wikipedia for snubbing an invite to attend the major Whitehall summit for the second time this year. It comes despite concerns their site breaches ethical codes by including detailed descriptions of suicide. And there was criticism that the amount pledged by the tech giants was meagre in comparison to their huge revenues - and the scale of the problem. Heath Secretary Matt Hancock is expected to call Wikipedia bosses in for a grilling another time. 'DON'T BOTHER ENGAGING' A Whitehall insider told The Sun: “Wikipedia did not bother to show up and the Samaritans have said they have not been very good at engaging with them. “Wikipedia have refused … [Read more...] about Web giants slammed for failing to tackle self-harm online as Wikipedia snubs government summit

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson is setting the record straight: He is not an avid hunter and taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door.“I’ve never killed a bear,” the Pensacola federal judge told the New York Times, “and I’m not Davy Crockett.”Rush Limbaugh, however, got that news a little too late. On Tuesday, he touted Vinson’s bear-hunting expertise, telling his listeners that the mounted bear heads were intended to “instill the fear of God into the accused,” the New York Times reports. He saw a link between Vinson’s hunting skills and the likely fate of the federal health care law that is before the judge (liberals, Limbaugh said, should be wary).The newspaper says Limbaugh likely got the information from Wikipedia. On Sunday and Monday morning the bear claim was posted to the website, with a footnote to a Pensacola News Journal article that doesn’t exist. The … [Read more...] about Judge Says He’s ‘Not Davy Crockett’ After Wikipedia Hoax Snares Rush Limbaugh

A federal appeals court has ruled the Wikimedia Foundation has standing to sue over the government’s warrantless, temporary collection of email communications during its searches for targeted international communications flowing through the United States.The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the Wikipedia publisher to sue over the so-called upstream surveillance, report the New York Times, the Washington Post and the National Law Journal (sub. req.). How Appealing links to additional coverage and the opinion (PDF).The court ruled 2-1 that eight other plaintiffs, including Amnesty International and The Nation magazine, did not have standing.The appeals court said Wikimedia communicates so much over the internet that it is virtually certain that some of the messages are copied and reviewed by the National Security Administration. The court ruled that the 2013 Supreme Court standing decision, Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, did not control … [Read more...] about Wikipedia publisher may sue over NSA ‘upstream’ surveillance, federal appeals court rules

Back in the day, it may have been more acceptable to allow virtually anyone to make changes to a Wikipedia entry and simply correct it, after the fact, if the new information was wrong.But the open-source online encyclopedia is now routinely relied on as a source of information by millions. So, because of the damage that can be done by erroneous information, Wikipedia’s nonprofit governing body is about to implement a major policy concerning English-language articles about living people, according to the New York Times.Within weeks, the Wikimedia Foundation plans to launch a “flagged revisions” program that will require a trusted editor to approve changes to the biographical information contained in such articles, the newspaper reports.“We are no longer at the point that it is acceptable to throw things at the wall and see what sticks,” says Seattle attorney Michael Snow, who serves as the chairman of the foundation’s board of trustees. “There … [Read more...] about New Wikipedia Policy: Editors Must OK Changes to Bios of Living People