[Wikimedia-l] Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 09:38:46 UTC 2012


On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Svip <svippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 April 2012 10:53, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> this just in, scary.
>>
>> Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/norwegian-terrorist-anders-breivik-my-biggest-influence-was-wikipedia-2012-4#ixzz1sN3LZci6
>
> Maybe he read the articles during vandalism?

Nah, he probably just read neutral information from Wikipedia - and
then consumed that with a lot of confirmation bias. It's a fact of
life - Wikipedia makes information more easily available for everyone,
also for those who use it for bad.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com



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