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Majority of coronavirus misinformation 'twists and reworks facts'
Nearly two-thirds of inaccurate coronavirus claims have a grain of truth in them but are twisted into something false, a study has found. The Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford analysed more than 200 COVID-19 claims rated either false or misleading by fact-checking organisation First Draft News.
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The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable
Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first stop for nearly everyone doing online research.
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We Should Teach Media Literacy in Elementary School
Helping children distinguish fake from real news will give them a lifelong benefit. By Prateek Puri.
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Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now
There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it. What makes this paradoxical is that the vastly increased access to information and knowledge we have today does not empower us or make us more cognitively autonomous. Rather, it renders us more dependent on other people’s judgments and evaluations of the information with which we are faced.
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Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
When Wikipedia was launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales, an entrepreneur who cut his teeth linking to internet porn in the 90s, its stated objective was to "compile the sum of all human knowledge" and make it freely available to the world. Sixteen years later, the free encyclopedia and fifth most popular website in the world is well on its way to this goal. Today, Wikipedia is home to 43 million articles in 285 languages and all of these articles are written and edited by an autonomous group of international volunteers.
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Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark
The father of information theory built a machine to game roulette, then abandoned it.
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Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius
Her husband, Claude, helped create the computer revolution, but few knew that she was his closest collaborator
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The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution
As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and information. By Natalie Wolchover.
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Into the history books: Encyclopaedias virtually 'worthless'
They were once a huge investment for the family home and a vital part of any school library, but encyclopaedias have now passed into history and can barely be given away. "Modern, 20th-century encyclopaedias really aren't worth anything at all now," rare book dealer Derek McDonnell told ABC Radio Perth. Second-hand book dealers cannot sell them, and even some charity shops now decline them as donations, he said.n.
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Randomly Surfing the Web Is No Way to Educate Yourself; Internet Is a 'Cult Generator'
Fake news has been around long before Facebook, but it was the tech company's goal to appear like a newspaper that eventually misled its users far more than ever before.
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Tangled Up in Spacetime
Hundreds of researchers in a collaborative project called “It from Qubit” say space and time may spring up from the quantum entanglement of tiny bits of information. By Clara Moskowitz.
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SBU verifies authenticity of most leaked documents
Documents from a hacked email account reportedly belonging to Vladislav Surkov, an aide of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, are similar to instructions seized by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) agents from organizers of a separatist movement in Zakarpattya, head of the SBU’s personnel department Oleksandr Tkachuk said. “I say officially that the majority of the documents are confirmed factually, their authenticity … They are the same as instructions taken from individuals working for Russian special forces,” Tkachuk told 112.ua TV channel on Oct. 25.
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