IN THE NEWS: 'Edit Wars' on Middle East Page Raise Tensions on Wikipedia

Ongoing war and other conflicts in the Middle East have spilled onto the pages of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, where volunteer editors who maintain the website are sparring over how to frame recent events.

Georgia Tech Regents' Professor Amy Bruckman, author of Should You Believe Wikipedia?, shares her insight with Bloomberg News for its story about how Wikipedia is struggling to moderate politically charged content.

Photo: Amy Bruckman (left) is a Regents' Professor with Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing. Photo by Terence Rushin/College of Computing