Hi all,
The DFRLab is part of the US think tank the Atlantic Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council. It recently published a study called "Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X https://dfrlab.org/2025/03/12/pravda-network-wikipedia-llm-x/".
This was shared on Politico Europe's Morning Tech newsletter, where I picked it up. The title of the paragraph was "Infecting Wikipedia", which I think is not the most accurate way of describing the study.
I am not suggesting any particular action, I am just sharing for awareness.
Cheers, Dimi
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Le mar. 18 mars 2025 à 10:52, Dimitar Zagorski dimi@wikimedia.be a écrit :
Hi all,
The DFRLab is part of the US think tank the Atlantic Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council. It recently published a study called "Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X https://dfrlab.org/2025/03/12/pravda-network-wikipedia-llm-x/".
This was shared on Politico Europe's Morning Tech newsletter, where I picked it up. The title of the paragraph was "Infecting Wikipedia", which I think is not the most accurate way of describing the study.
I am not suggesting any particular action, I am just sharing for awareness.
Cheers, Dimi
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Hi Dimi,
Thanks for sharing. A very worrying development! Would it not be possible to automatically disable all the wikipedia links to the known pravda network sites? Surely this is an emergency situation since the reputation of Wikipedia as a trusted source of info is at stake.
Marian
On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 10:51, Dimitar Zagorski dimi@wikimedia.be wrote:
Hi all,
The DFRLab is part of the US think tank the Atlantic Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council. It recently published a study called "Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X https://dfrlab.org/2025/03/12/pravda-network-wikipedia-llm-x/".
This was shared on Politico Europe's Morning Tech newsletter, where I picked it up. The title of the paragraph was "Infecting Wikipedia", which I think is not the most accurate way of describing the study.
I am not suggesting any particular action, I am just sharing for awareness.
Cheers, Dimi
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This is something the Wikipedia communities - once informed - deal with very enthusiastically and professionally: see for example this recent discussion: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Le_Bistro/13_mars_2025#c-Ornith...
I'm sure they're also very happy to have additional contributors in their debates about how best to address the issue!
Phil
On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 09:22, Marian Grubben marian.grubben@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Dimi,
Thanks for sharing. A very worrying development! Would it not be possible to automatically disable all the wikipedia links to the known pravda network sites? Surely this is an emergency situation since the reputation of Wikipedia as a trusted source of info is at stake.
Marian
On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 at 10:51, Dimitar Zagorski dimi@wikimedia.be wrote:
Hi all,
The DFRLab is part of the US think tank the Atlantic Council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council. It recently published a study called "Russia-linked Pravda network cited on Wikipedia, LLMs, and X https://dfrlab.org/2025/03/12/pravda-network-wikipedia-llm-x/".
This was shared on Politico Europe's Morning Tech newsletter, where I picked it up. The title of the paragraph was "Infecting Wikipedia", which I think is not the most accurate way of describing the study.
I am not suggesting any particular action, I am just sharing for awareness.
Cheers, Dimi
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