• Pourquoi et comment j’ai créé un canular sur Wikipédia | Passeur de sciences
    http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/2017/02/12/pourquoi-et-comment-jai-cree-un-canular-sur-wikipedia

    « Il existe deux filtres, m’a expliqué Jules78120, un jeune administrateur de 22 ans, journaliste de formation. Le premier est la patrouille. Ce sont des contributeurs bénévoles qui, à l’aide d’un logiciel, voient les modifications et les vérifient. Grâce à ce filtre, environ 90 % des dégradations disparaissent dans la minute qui suit. Mais il n’y a pour ainsi dire aucune chance qu’un vandalisme aussi bien fait que le vôtre soit détecté : sur un sujet tel qu’un savant grec de l’Antiquité, un canular peut rester un an voire plus sans que personne ne s’en aperçoive. Le second niveau de vérification est effectué par les contributeurs eux-mêmes : ils ont des listes de suivi des articles qui les intéressent et vérifient les changements qui y sont apportés. »

    #wikipédia #post-thruth #dégradation

  • Canadian Mosque Shooter Is Proof of the Dangers of Right-Wing Online Trolls | Alternet
    http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/quebec-attack-and-right-wing-media

    In other words, he’s not a “lone wolf” gunman. He’s an “alt-right” assassin who seemingly became deeply immersed in a radical movement in search of cultural and ethnic purity. (One family member thinks Bissonnette “fell under the influence” of someone who radicalized him.)

    In the wake of the deadly attack, Fox News viewers were told virtually none of that about the gunman. In fact, they were fed misinformation about the identity of the shooter, thanks to the network’s claim on Twitter that a second gunman on the scene was “of Moroccan origin.” (Though police initially arrested two suspects, including one who is of Moroccan descent, they quickly realized he was a witness to the attack and that there was only one shooter, the Canadian native Bissonnette. Fox did not correct its tweet for more than 24 hours, until a spokesperson for the Canadian prime minister called on the network to “either retract or update” its false claim.) “Alt-right” outlet Breitbart.com did the same thing, hyping the Morocco angle, and then limply updating the incorrect report.

    Using that context, White House press secretary Sean Spicer tried to politicize the Quebec massacre by weirdly suggesting it proves the need for the president’s get-tough-on-terror agenda (emphasis added):

    We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. It’s a terrible reminder of why we must remain vigilant, and why the president is taking steps to be proactive, rather than reactive, when it comes to our nation’s safety and security.

    To repeat, the arrested gunman is reportedly a white nationalist Trump supporter.

    #post-thruth