A look at debates by Wikipedia editors over citing Fox News, deemed a “marginally reliable” source for politics and science and now cited in 16,000+ articles (Samuel Breslow/Slate)

Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
Three members of Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council, including two who have been members since 2016, resign, alleging Twitter’s new leadership had shut them out  —  Eirliani Abdul Rahman helped the platform stop youth sexual exploitation.  The new boss wasn’t listening.

Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
Three members of Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council, including two who have been members since 2016, resign, alleging Twitter’s new leadership had shut them out  —  Eirliani Abdul Rahman helped the platform stop youth sexual exploitation.  The new boss wasn’t listening.

Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:
How Wikipedia’s editors worked after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, debating what pictures to use and what to call Charles, creating new articles, and more  —  RIP, Queen Elizabeth II.  There are a lot of things to do in the digital realm when a monarch dies, and one of the first places people go when a famous person dies is Wikipedia.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn’s nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her  —  How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up? … Today, we’re just talking about a problem.

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Wikimedia begins rolling out updated editing features for new contributors, such as mentorship and suggestions for cross-linking articles and other first steps  —  Wikipedia is one of the sturdiest survivors of the old web, as well as one of the most clearly human-powered ones …

Xinyi Luo / CoinDesk:
Alameda-backed DeFi projects Maps.me, a maps app for travelers, and “DeFi Prime Brokerage protocol” Oxygen say 95%+ of their native tokens are locked up at FTX  —  Alameda Research led funding rounds into both companies in 2021.  —  Maps.me and Oxygen, two decentralized finance …