Facebook's social network got so big, it had to build the thing an entirely new foundation. It's a story that shows just how far the giants of the internet must go to ensure that their services can ...

Facebook is testing a new feature that displays factual information from Wikipedia in some search results, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. This is perhaps an attempt to keep you on Facebook ...

Your teacher might not trust Wikipedia’s crowdsourced encyclopedia, but it looks like Facebook does. The social media giant thinks the solution to its fake news problem maybe in Wikipedia’s digital ...

Facebook users are starting to see Wikipedia knowledge panels in search results, similar to what Google has been doing for years. Facebook appears to be testing the addition of Wikipedia knowledge ...

Facebook made nearly $27 billion last year, but the tech giant can't seem to figure out how to fix its fake news problem on its own. Their solution: enlist a nonprofit that has successfully done ...

Facebook is launching new tools to help users better assess news sources — by using the crowdsourced Wikipedia. On Tuesday, April 3, Facebook began rolling out new “About This Article” tools in the ...

In the past few weeks, both Facebook and YouTube have come up with a similar solution to some of their thornier problems. On a day when Mark Zuckerberg has to face questions from U.S. members of ...

Facebook is testing a new feature that aims to keep users inside its platform when they’re looking for factual information they would otherwise turn to Google or Wikipedia to find. The company ...

Years ago, I had a friend who would “play Wikipedia.” He would read interesting Wikipedia pages and click on the internal links as a way of traveling from one amusing article to the next. The one time ...

While Wikipedia itself doesn’t publicly publish any data on its most popular pages of the year, a Swedish software engineer has analyzed the site’s public logs to show what pages most visitors were ...

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