A veteran Republican senator reminded Google that he's not dead in a series of taunting tweets
https://www.thisisinsider.com/orrin-hatch-tweeted-google-not-dead-2018-7 The issue seems to lie with Hatch's Wikipedia page, which briefly stated that the senator had died in September 2017 after it was vandalised by a rogue editor on Sunday. Another editor fixed the issue on the same day, but the error still showed up in Google's "answer box," which shows a snippet of information on a search result from various sources such as Wikipedia. It isn't the first time Hatch's page has been vandalised either. Hatch is due to retire at the end of the year after a career as the longest-serving Senate Republican. He is a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and controversial for helping push through last year's tax bill. That appears to have made him unpopular with Wikipedia editors, who have vandalised his page several times over the past few months. - - - Google still hasn't learned that using Wikipedia to provide what most people assume are authoritative answers is not a tenable policy. Wikipedia isn't an encyclopedia, it's a computer game for vandalizing trolls. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
