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Who Decides What’s True on Wikipedia?
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Ashley Rindsberg investigates how anonymous editors shape the internet’s encyclopedia through ideological bias, and corrupt the AI systems being trained on it.

I have noticed firsthand the way that Wikipedia—the internet’s encyclopedia, widely treated as an objective reference—can become, in small but persistent ways, an ideological battleground. After I testified to Congress against reparations for slavery, my own Wikipedia page became a site of competing edits. At one point, an editor removed the fact—well-d…

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