Columnist Teri Sforza writes about two professors, including one from Chapman, calling for better safeguards for entries about the Holocaust and other topics.
Scary easy. And when much of the world gets its information from a single online encyclopedia — and swarms of AI chat bots amplify its “facts” — distortions and misinformation can repeat into infinity, drowning out truth., but academics say it’s a chilling abject lesson for all that can come next.
write in “Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust,” published in the Journal of Holocaust Research. “Finally, distortionists inflate Jewish collaboration with the Nazis to make it seem an important part of the German policy of the extermination of European Jewry,” they write.
A cadre of colorfully named, and mostly anonymous, editors set to work . It has been an ongoing battle for years, with one step forward and two steps back. From autumn 2020 through summer 2021, Wikipedia’s article on the Gdańsk-based ‘Museum of the World War II’ included criticism of its emphasis on the victimization of ethnic Poles. In August 2021, Volunteer Marek quietly removed it.
That makes the arbitration committee’s proposed decision all the more heart-wrenching for Grabowski and Klein.It would also ban Levivich, an editor with scholarly input, for displaying a short temper.This misses the mark entirely and allows falsehoods and manipulation to continue living on Wikipedia’s pages, Klein said.
Levivich, the soon-to-be-banned scholarly editor, noted that Wikipedia tried to manage this very battle back in 2019, creating a “source restriction” requiring only high-quality academic sources.
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