From Twitter to Wikipedia, We Cannot Crowdsource the Truth

Sean O'Leary
3 min readJul 24, 2023

Do you know who OrangeMike is? You should. He’s one of the people who decides the truth on Wikipedia.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter — excuse me, X — he infamously said he wanted the platform to “be the best source of truth, the most timely and accurate source of truth.” Everyone loudly, roundly, and correctly mocked him. You cannot crowd-source the truth.

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