Unit 3: The Rapid Spread of Fake News (1ère AMC)

 

Synthesis: Wikipedia

 

	Document 1	Document 2
Nature, date, source	Web article June 2019 Wikipedia@20	Web article June 2019 Wired.co.uk
Main ideas	-People have bias ideas. A bias idea is always subjective, it has a personal judgement. -> The problem with Wikipedia: people are writing articles led by their bias judgement. -Therefore: Wiki: not that neutral. -Paradoxically Wiki is supposed to give unbiased information, it is the ail of the website. -Being bias is unconscious: it is built through our living environment, family, friends, the media, the society in which we live… -Even reliable resources are biased and they contribute to the bias standardization of our social life. -> Solution: using several sources and collaboration are key otherwise neutral knowledge will be lost.	-Wiki was created in 2001. -At first, it was criticized and was accused of/ disinformation/of being a very bad source of information. -> however it has evolved nowadays: the goal is to give credible information to fight disinformation. -They work as a team, a community, to share and give real facts. To become a reliable source. -The fact that wiki is a website on which people gather their knowledge entails a radical transparency. -> comparison with FB, a platform that hide some information about their policies to their users. -> Conclusion on Wiki: it is a more reliable/trustworthy source than any social media platform.
	Serious and alarming tone. To educate. Denouncing the fact that Wiki is not that neutral as it can have biased content.	Serious Informative

 

ð  The opposite of bias: neutral and objective.

Issue/key question: To what extent can Wikipedia be neutral and give reliable information?

Outline:

I. The goals of Wiki.

II. How does it work? (pros and cos)

III. A collaborative platform: comparaison with other social media platforms 

Homework: you wll have to make a synthesis with the documents you received in class. Monday, January 20th. Compare and contrast the two texts following the method we saw in class. You will have to write a complete synthesis in 250 words (Introduction, key question, development in 2 our 3 parts and conclusion). Do not forget to skip lines.