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Climate change is being thrown into doubt on foreign-language editions of Wikipedia

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News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support A BBC investigation has found that climate change conspiracies are widespread on foreign-language editions of Wikipedia. The problem is due to those Wikipedia editions having fewer editors.
A new investigation by BBC News has found that several foreign-language Wikipedia editions are casting doubt on climate change, just a week after the year’s biggest climate event, COP26. Several versions of Wikipedia were noted as containing inaccurate information including the Swahili, Kazakh, and Belarusian editions. Unlike Facebook or Twitter which governments can sanction more easily for hosting false information, Wikipedia’s content is edited by anyone in the world; it is more decentralised.

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