On Wikipedia, a fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation | WHO

A team of medicine enthusiasts has been scrambling to keep disinformation from spreading on the free encyclopedia.

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While the world was panicking, a group of "medicine enthusiasts" and veteran editors, including Dody Ismoyo were essentially fighting a digital war. They had to filter a "firehose" of rumors—like the virus coming from snakes, 5G, or being a bioweapon—to keep the encyclopedia accurate.
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