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Wikipedia’s ‘neutrality’ has always been complicated. New rules will make questioning it harder

Wikipedia’s ‘neutrality’ has always been complicated. New rules will make questioning it harder

Wikipedia is built on a “neutral point of view”. But who decides what neutral means?

11.08.2025 10

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Heather Ford

We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them sanitise history

Wikipedia articles related to Australia are overwhelmingly centred on cities, new research has found, with negative aspects of a place sometimes “...

28.10.2024 50

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Heather Ford

We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some sanitised history, others privileged fiction over reality

Wikipedia articles related to Australia are overwhelmingly centred on cities, new research has found, with negative aspects of a place sometimes “...

27.10.2024 1

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Heather Ford

Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do?

Facebook acknowledged in a Senate inquiry yesterday that it is scraping the public photos of Australian users to train its artificial intelligence...

12.09.2024 3

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Heather Ford