The Cutting Edge of Sharp Power
@article{Walker2020TheCE, title={The Cutting Edge of Sharp Power}, author={Christopher Walker and Shanthi Kalathil and Jessica Ludwig}, journal={Journal of Democracy}, year={2020}, volume={31}, pages={124-137} }
The pages of Wikipedia, sometimes referred to as the “world’s encyclopedia,” are consulted by users roughly twenty-billion times per month.1 This popular online resource has arguably become a definitive global information gateway: Search-engine algorithms regularly place Wikipedia entries at the top of their lists of results, which also makes Wikipedia the chief source of replies to all manner of queries by Apple’s “Siri” and other voice-assistant software. Wikipedia—launched in January 2001—is…
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