Name: How Wikipedia’s volunteers became the web’s best weapon against misinformation
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advertisementadvertisementFor a few minutes near the end of his first presidential debate, Mike Bloomberg was dead. At 9:38 p.m. Eastern time, a Wikipedia user named DQUACK02 added some text to the Wikipedia page for the former Democratic presidential candidate and New York City mayor:advertisementadvertisement“death_date &nbsp; = {{Death date and age|2020|02|19|1942|02|14}}; |death_place&nbsp; = [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], U.S.; |death_cause = [[Getting stabbed by Warren, Biden and Sanders]].”Within three minutes, another user named Cgmusselman had reverted the page back. By then the inevitable...

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Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design. It publishes eight print issues per year. Fast Company was launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, two former Harvard Business Review editors, and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman.

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