User:Superb Owl
SEMI-RETIRED
This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia.
Projects:
[edit]Suggestions and collaborations welcome!
Combating state-sponsored editing
[edit]Some types identified in 2022
[edit]- Astroturfing (also known as coordinated inauthentic behavior)[1]
- Outsourcing to:
- Private firms (WP:undisclosed paid editing)
- Junk science
- Media entities (eg 2024 Tenet Media investigation)
- Politicians and political parties
- Hacking or hijacking accounts
- Amplification of existing messages
- Outsourcing to:
- Intimidating, threatening, reputation tarnishing and harassing of editors and their family members[1]
- Wikipedia:Trust and safety
- As of 2022, the interviewees said Wikipedia was not able to protect editors from most forms of harassment.
- One interviewee: “if you accuse someone of being a state agent, you’re more likely to be sanctioned than they are.”
- As of 2022, the interviewees said Wikipedia was not able to protect editors from most forms of harassment.
- Wikipedia:Trust and safety
- Community capture[1]
- eg Croatian Wikipedia by far-right groups
Responses
[edit]About me
[edit] | This user is a participant in WikiProject Reliability. |
| This user opposes state-sponsored edits and censorship of Wikipedia |
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c Miller, Carl; Smith, Melanie; Marsh, Oliver; Balint, Kata; Inskip, Chris; Visser, Francesca (October 2022). "Information Warfare and Wikipedia" (PDF). BEAM, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, CASM Technology.