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  1. May 2026
    1. athi, causing his family unnecessary pain and difficulty. The person who set up the “Find Boston Bomber” Reddit board said “It Was a Disaster” but “Incredible” [p26], and Reddit apologized for online Boston ‘witch hunt’ [p27].

      There were some positives in the article of how Reddit helped organize even animal support for victims, but It's insane the personal harassment this innocent person and his family faced. That trauma can't be stopped by a single apology. Just think about how horrible that would be to experience as someone with no idea what's going on.

  2. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Daniel Oberhaus. Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors. Vice, November 2017. URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-elite-diversity-foundation

      First of all, I didn't know that Wikipedia's founder (Jimmy Wales) started his career by linking to internet porn in the 90s. Wikimedia foundation (a non-profit) found that 1 percent of Wikipedia's editors have made 77% of the site's content. Wikipedia is an adhocracy: a stable hierarchy structure which allows for individual mobility The most startlingly thing is that in 2011, 91% of their editors are male and in 2013, 84% were male, a stable decrease, but still overwhelming. This is a struggle for Ai models as AI will use wikipedia for their training data, using date that is geared for western males.