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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by blueflow on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:47AM (#42622898)
Wikipedia is an improvement, but its still below the standards and methods that are accessible to humans. If you are an expert, you will hate the Wikipedia articles about your field and still be helpless because the garbage in there is referencing some guy who wrote a badly-researched book in 2001.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:02AM (#42623834)
On the flip side, Wikipedia is available to a vast majority of the planet's population. We've traded optimum veracity for the privileged few, for 'good enough' for the masses.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by blueflow on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:06AM (#42623882)
I disagree that availability is the issue - you can download the primary sources from the Internet as PDF, even from China or 3rd world countries. It is that enough people don't care about "correctness" and take the best available hearsay as fact.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politicall... by bhouston on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:50AM (#42622935)
> If you are an expert, you will hate the Wikipedia articles about your field

I haven't noticed that. Generally I find it decent.

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