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Wikipedia to spend $1M on erasing political bias from pages

Digg / Tech Industry News  Thu, 05/13/2010 - 19:30

Good luck. They’re calling it “increasing the accuracy of Wikipedia articles dealing with public policy,” but what Wikipedia is really trying to do – with the help of a $1.2 million grant – is control the tendencies of partisans and ideologues to mistake opinions for fact.

It’s the first time Wikipedia has targeted a specific subject area this way.