"The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia---for Pay"
8/11/15
Joe Pinkser
The rise of "undisclosed paid edits." Dwindling ranks of volunteer editors must contend with an increasing volume of edits made by people who are being paid to shape the story in a particular way---PR firms, corporate staff, and freelancers. Wikipedia articles routinely scrubbed of true facts. An OUP textbook plagiarized from the Wikipedia entry on Ebola.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/wikipedia-editors-for-pay/393926/
No comments:
Post a Comment