User:Superb Owl
Retired
This user is no longer active on Wikipedia.
- I will check occasionally to follow-up on prior work including the projects below and answer questions
Projects:
[edit]Current
[edit]Please reach out if you have any questions or requests on these
On hold
[edit]Not actively working on this but happy to contribute if someone is going to lead an effort on this
- Automatic Citation Tool improvements
Combating state-sponsored editing
[edit]- Astroturfing (also known as coordinated inauthentic behavior)
- Outsourcing to:
- Private firms (WP:undisclosed paid editing)
- Junk science
- Media entities (eg 2024 Tenet Media investigation)
- Politicians and political parties
- Hacking or hijacking accounts
- Amplification of existing messages
- Intimidating, threatening, reputation tarnishing and harassing of editors and their family members
- Wikipedia:Trust and safety
- As of 2022, the interviewees said Wikipedia was not able to protect editors from most forms of harassment.
- One interviewee: “if you accuse someone of being a state agent, you’re more likely to be sanctioned than they are.”
- As of 2022, the interviewees said Wikipedia was not able to protect editors from most forms of harassment.
- Wikipedia:Trust and safety
- Community capture
- eg Croatian Wikipedia by far-right groups
- Outsourcing to:
Responses
[edit]Select 2024 election-related articles to watch for disinformation by state actors:
[edit]- Electoral fraud in the United States
- Elections in the United States
- Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign
- Jill Stein 2024 presidential campaign
- Cornel West 2024 presidential campaign
- Claudia De la Cruz 2024 presidential campaign
- Claudia De la Cruz
- Neville Roy Singham
- Party for Socialism and Liberation
- Green Pary of the United States
- Cornel West
- Illegal immigration to the United States
- Mexico-United States border crisis
- Russian interference in the 2024 United States elections
- Chinese interference in the 2024 United States elections
- Voter identification laws in the United States
- Age and health concerns about Donald Trump
- October surprise
Ongoing monitoring:
[edit]About me
[edit] | This user is a participant in WikiProject Reliability. |
| This user opposes state-sponsored edits and censorship of Wikipedia |
| This user believes in political egalitarianism |
| WVS | This user is interested in studying vandalism. |
 | This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. |
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References
[edit]- ^ Miller, Carl; Smith, Melanie; Marsh, Oliver; Balint, Kata; Inskip, Chris; Visser, Francesca (October 2022). "Information Warfare and Wikipedia" (PDF). BEAM, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, CASM Technology.