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Tag: Malaysian Airlines

Transparency bots hint at better uses for news algorithms

Media
July 23, 2014August 21, 2014
by Ben Lyons

By BEN LYONS / Monitoring Wikipedia edits made from Russian government addresses, an automated tool caught controversial changes in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 crash in Ukraine this July. Someone at a state-run TV and radio network, VGTRK, anonymously removed mentions of Russian Federation-sourced missiles, swapping in Ukrainian soldiers as the culprits.

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