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Wikipedia and breaking news: The promise of a global media platform and the threat of the filter bubble

Posted on 12 August 2014 by Heather Ford

Heather Ford gave this talk at Wikimania in London on Sunday warning Wikipedians about the fact that they are by no means a completely ‘neutral’ resource and that they suffer from a ‘homegrown’ bias that results from different points of view… Continue Reading →

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