The article that explores the success of the online platform features insights from Mesgari, assistant professor of management information systems.
A recent article in the Christian Science Monitor that looks at how Wikipedia has avoided the battle over misinformation that is plaguing Google and Facebook included insights from Mostafa Mesgari, assistant professor of management information.
The Oct. 11 piece by staff writer Eoin O’Carroll, “Why does Wikipedia (mostly) work,” looked at the growing credibility of Wikipedia, the world’s fifth-most-visited website, which has been compared favorably to sources such as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
“If you are in the business of making money out of people’s attention, fake news would be so helpful for your business,” Mesgari told the reporter. “Wikipedia is very different from social media.”
The article included the results of a 2014 report by Mesgari and his colleagues the found that the site is “a generally reliable source of information” when compared to professionally produced encyclopedic information.
“It’s the best sum of all human knowledge,” Mesgari said.
Read the entire article here.