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Wikipédia refuse de modifier des articles sur l’Ukraine : la Russie lui inflige une amende
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 28 February, 2023 - 19:31
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Russia fines Wikipedia for publishing facts instead of Kremlin war propaganda
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 28 February, 2023 - 18:37
Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony at the Eternal Flame and the Unknown Soldier's grave in Alexander Garden in Moscow, Russia, on February 23, 2023. (credit: Getty Images | Pavel Bednyakov)
A Russian court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 2 million rubles (about $27,000) today for failing to delete alleged "misinformation" about the Russian military from Wikipedia, Reuters reported . It's the third fine Russia has issued against the Wikipedia owner since Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine a year ago.
"Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Russia introduced sweeping new laws restricting what people can report about the conflict, fining or blocking websites that spread information at odds with the Kremlin's official narrative. ... The latest fine was imposed after the authorities accused Wikipedia of 'spreading misinformation' in articles about Russian military units," Wikimedia Russia told Reuters.
Wikimedia has consistently fought Russia's attempts at censorship. After receiving a demand to remove content about the invasion of Ukraine on March 1, 2022, Wikimedia said it "will not back down in the face of efforts to censor and intimidate members of our movement."
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La page n°1 de Wikipedia en dit long sur le Web d’aujourd’hui
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 14 January, 2023 - 08:00
Si une reine ayant vécu il y a deux millénaires domine Wikipedia, c'est en partie grâce à Google Assistant.
La page n°1 de Wikipedia en dit long sur le Web d’aujourd’hui
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Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi spy infiltration
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 6 January, 2023 - 17:18 · 1 minute
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Whistleblowers have alleged that the Saudi Arabian government infiltrated the highest ranks of Wikipedia in order to control information about the country, activists reported yesterday. The alleged infiltration resulted in the 2020 arrests in Saudi Arabia of two Wikipedia administrators—Ziyad al-Sofiani (jailed for up to eight years) and Osama Khalid (jailed for up to 32 years)—for "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals” by posting content “deemed to be critical about the persecution of political activists in the country.” Today, Wikimedia Foundation released a statement to Ars disputing the report, alleging that there was no “infiltration” and that Wikipedia admins have “no ranks.”
These conflicting statements follow an investigation concluded by the Wikimedia Foundation last month that resulted in the banning of 16 users for “conflict of interest editing on Wikipedia projects” in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. At the time, Wikimedia said, “We were able to confirm that a number of users with close connections with external parties were editing the platform in a coordinated fashion to advance the aim of those parties.”
According to a joint statement from US-based rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) and Beirut-based SMEX, sources close to Wikipedia and interviews with the jailed administrators confirmed that those “external parties” were “government agents acting as independent editors.” These government agents acted as spies for Saudi authorities, the activists alleged, identifying noncompliant administrators like those jailed for editing Wikipedia entries to include information that Saudi officials did not approve of.
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Twitter sells blue checks, Tumblr allows nudes: 2022’s biggest Big-Tech U-turns
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 27 December, 2022 - 12:15 · 1 minute
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During a year that seemingly shook Twitter up for good—adding an edit button and demoting legacy verified users by selling off blue checks—it’s easy to overlook how many other tech companies also threw users for a loop with some unexpected policy changes in 2022.
Many decisions to reverse policies were political. Recall that Wikipedia stopped taking cryptocurrency donations due to the environmental cost. Google started allowing political emails to bypass Gmail spam filters ahead of elections, and then, following pressure from abortion rights activists, began auto-deleting location data from sensitive medical locations. Among the most shocking shifts to some, after Russia invaded Ukraine, Facebook made a controversial call to start considering some death threats aimed at Russian military forces as acceptable “political expression”—instead of violent speech in violation of community guidelines.
Other decisions seemed to reverse course on admittedly bad business moves. Amazon stopped paying “ambassadors” to tweet about how much they loved working in lawsuit-riddled warehouses. Apple killed its controversial plan to scan all iCloud photos for child sexual abuse materials. And chasing profits that were lost through its prior adult-content ban, perhaps the greatest surprise came when Tumblr started allowing nudity again.
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Wikipédia s’est fait berner pendant 10 ans sur l’origine du grille-pain
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 21 November, 2022 - 10:53
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La page Wikipédia sur la guerre en Ukraine a été manipulée en faveur de la Russie
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 21 October, 2022 - 05:44
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Quelle photo va illustrer la reine Elizabeth II : l’important débat sur Wikipédia
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 9 September, 2022 - 13:17
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Le décès de la reine Elizabeth II a entrainé un trafic colossal sur Wikipédia
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 9 September, 2022 - 13:12
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