Editorial Bias in Crowd-Sourced Political Information.

ABSTRACT: The Internet has dramatically expanded citizens' access to and ability to engage with political information. On many websites, any user can contribute and edit "crowd-sourced" information about important political figures. One of the most prominent examples of crowd-sourced information on the Internet is Wikipedia, a free and open encyclopedia created and edited entirely by users, and one of the world's most accessed websites. While previous studies of crowd-sourced information platforms have found them to be accurate, few have considered biases in what kinds of information are included. We report the results of four randomized field experiments that sought to explore what biases exist in the political articles of this collaborative website. By randomly assigning factually true but either

SUBMITTER: Kalla JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4558055 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature