{"id":480856,"date":"2022-08-03T19:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:24:45","slug":"judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"#Judges could be manipulated by Wikipedia articles, MIT study warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a409761b41c9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/#%E2%80%9CJudges_could_be_manipulated_by_Wikipedia_articles_MIT_study_warns%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Judges could be manipulated by Wikipedia articles, MIT study warns&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/#Greetings_humanoids\" >Greetings, humanoids<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/#The_case_against_Wikipedia\" >The case against Wikipedia<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/#Legal_precedents\" >Legal precedents<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/#The_verdict\" >The verdict<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judges-could-be-manipulated-by-wikipedia-articles-mit-study-warns\/#Legal_damages\" >Legal damages<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJudges_could_be_manipulated_by_Wikipedia_articles_MIT_study_warns%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Judges could be manipulated by Wikipedia articles, MIT study warns&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n                            Litigants could <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> Wikipedia to influence legal decisions, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p><span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deliverypdf.ssrn.com\/delivery.php?ID=358086124121109119105125126116086066005053028051000082065084065119118114101068064106013057098023052127028113122091000083110071109016014016004014031118119006027096073066040001127020025010031124105093086122092117104079086127092080094008123080004069104&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE\">A study<\/a> led by Neil Thompson from MIT\u2019s Computer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) discovered that judges were more likely to cite legal cases that have a Wikipedia article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The finding has sparked\u00a0 concerns that judicial decisions are being shaped by unreliable information. The openness of Wikipedia could also lead legal judgements to be manipulated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper neural channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img class=\"js-lazy\" https:=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/src=\" https:=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<h2 class=\"channel-cta-title\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greetings_humanoids\"><\/span>Greetings, humanoids<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cA well-resourced litigant could encourage his legal team to anonymously integrate their own analysis of a relevant precedent into a Wikipedia article at an early stage of litigation, in the hope of later attracting the attention of the judge or his clerk,\u201d Thompson told TNW.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_case_against_Wikipedia\"><\/span>The case against Wikipedia<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Wikipedia\u00a0is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_as_a_court_source\">increasingly cited<\/a> in legal scholarship and court judgments.<\/p>\n<p>Busy judges use the site\u00a0to keep up with developments in case law \u2014 but the shortcut is hazardous.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1390262 js-lazy\" alt=\"Wikipedia acknowledges that not everything on the site is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased.\" width=\"1474\" height=\"388\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1474px) 100vw, 1474px\" https:=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37.png 1474w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-280x74.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-270x71.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-540x142.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-796x210.png 796w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F08%2F03%2Fwikipedia-influencing-judicial-decisions-could-manipulate-judges-mit%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Even Wikipedia warns against citing Wikipedia. Credit: Wikimedia Foundation\" data-title=\"Share Even Wikipedia warns against citing Wikipedia. Credit: Wikimedia Foundation on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Even Wikipedia warns against citing Wikipedia. Credit: Wikimedia Foundation on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>Even Wikipedia warns against citing Wikipedia. Credit: Wiki<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> Foundation<\/figcaption><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1390262\" https:=\"\" alt=\"Wikipedia acknowledges that not everything on the site is accurate, comprehensive, or unbiased.\" width=\"1474\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37.png 1474w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-280x74.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-270x71.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-540x142.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-03-at-13.43.37-796x210.png 796w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>While Wikipedia provides an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3039505\">enormous breadth<\/a> of free information, research on the site\u2019s accuracy and biases has produced mixed results. Ad hoc topic coverage and unknown authorship add further vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"s1\">The worst outcome would be for a judge\u2019s reliance on Wikipedia to lead them to decide a case differently than they would have if they had read either an expert secondary source or the cited precedent itself,\u201d said Thompson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEven without any difference in outcome, however, judges\u2019 reliance on Wikipedia to determine the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>licable law undermines the litigant\u2019s expectation that the court\u2019s reasoning is the product of expertise alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Legal_precedents\"><\/span>Legal precedents<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The study focused on Wikipedia\u2019s influence on\u00a0judges in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The country shares key similarities with other <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/feb\/12\/what-is-common-law-and-why-is-it-being-misinterpreted\">common law<\/a> systems, such as US and UK. Notably, lower courts are bound by the decisions made in higher courts, while judges cite previous cases to determine the applicable legal principle.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in the US, however, decisions made in Irish courts are rarely covered in Wikipedia,\u00a0which makes it easier to analyze the impact of new entries.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"c-richText__pullQuote\">\n<div class=\"c-richText__pullQuoteGradient\">\n<p class=\"c-richText__pullQuoteQuote\">Given the greater coverage of US court cases on Wikipedia, its influence might be even larger.\n            <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The researchers created 154 new Wikipedia entries on Irish Supreme Court cases. Most were written were law students under faculty supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Each author had access to relevant legal materials, but their names, expertise, and potential biases were opaque.<\/p>\n<p>Half the articles were randomly selected for upload to Wikipedia, where judges, clerks, and lawyers could access them.\u00a0 The other half were kept offline. This provided a counterfactual basis for what happens to cases without an entry on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The uploaded entries were uploaded were highly visible on search engines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Wikipedia articles were the first search result on Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo in almost every case when searched by decision title or just the citation,\u201d the study authors wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1390251 js-lazy\" alt=\"Screenshot of Google search results (13 September 2021) for Weir-Rodgers v. SF Trust Ltd\" width=\"1010\" height=\"442\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" https:=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41.png 1010w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-280x123.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-270x118.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-540x236.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-796x348.png 796w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F08%2F03%2Fwikipedia-influencing-judicial-decisions-could-manipulate-judges-mit%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Google pulled information from the articles into knowledge panels that appear on the right of search results. Credit: Thompson et al.\" data-title=\"Share Google pulled information from the articles into knowledge panels that appear on the right of search results. Credit: Thompson et al. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Google pulled information from the articles into knowledge panels that appear on the right of search results. Credit: Thompson et al. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>Google pulled information from the articles into knowledge panels that appear on the right of search results. Credit: Thompson et al.<\/figcaption><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1390251\" https:=\"\" alt=\"Screenshot of Google search results (13 September 2021) for Weir-Rodgers v. SF Trust Ltd\" width=\"1010\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41.png 1010w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-280x123.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-270x118.png 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-540x236.png 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.27.41-796x348.png 796w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>The team then tracked how often the articles were cited in judicial decisions. They further measured whether the arguments in court judgments echoed the Wikipedia pages.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_verdict\"><\/span>The verdict<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The study found that a Wikipedia article increases a case\u2019s citations in Ireland by more than 20%. This boost was far bigger for citations by lower courts, which suggests the site is used more by judges or clerks with heavier workloads.<\/p>\n<p>Strikingly, the language used in Wikipedia entries was shown to influence the actual arguments used in judicial decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGiven the greater coverage of US court cases on Wikipedia, the influence of Wikipedia on the use of precedent might be expected to be even larger<\/span><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d said Thompson.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1390252 js-lazy\" alt=\"Fig 3 Difference in the average number of citations for court decisions that had a Wikipedia page (treatment) vs. those that did not get one (control)1\" width=\"1092\" height=\"658\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px\" https:=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25.png 1092w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-280x169.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-224x135.png 224w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-448x270.png 448w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-796x480.png 796w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2022%2F08%2F03%2Fwikipedia-influencing-judicial-decisions-could-manipulate-judges-mit%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: The difference in the average number of citations for court decisions that had a page (right) and those that didn\u2019t (left). Credit: Thompson et al.\" data-title=\"Share The difference in the average number of citations for court decisions that had a page (right) and those that didn\u2019t (left). Credit: Thompson et al. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share The difference in the average number of citations for court decisions that had a page (right) and those that didn\u2019t (left). Credit: Thompson et al. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>The difference in the average number of citations for court decisions that had a page (right) and those that didn\u2019t (left). Credit: Thompson et al.<\/figcaption><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1390252\" https:=\"\" alt=\"Fig 3 Difference in the average number of citations for court decisions that had a Wikipedia page (treatment) vs. those that did not get one (control)1\" width=\"1092\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25.png 1092w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-280x169.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-224x135.png 224w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-448x270.png 448w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-02-at-22.33.25-796x480.png 796w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Legal_damages\"><\/span>Legal damages<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, expressed some initial concerns about report.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit noted that it had limited access to the study information, such as the full list of articles and the number of citations they received.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from the Wikimedia Foundation said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>In this case, we would like to note that the pages added to <span class=\"il\">Wikipedia<\/span> as part of this research were added by law students and would have likely been further edited and improved by <span class=\"il\">Wikipedia<\/span> volunteer editors from across the globe who keep a watch on articles to maintain the content\u2019s verifiability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>In fact, reviewing <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:NewPagesFeed\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:NewPagesFeed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1659603282217000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0hG4ROifBZ2GvYXJzA4Sms\"><span>new pages<\/span><\/a><span> is one of the most\u00a0important <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1659603282217000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2m66hvEt3kLuuDEaFWTwyi\"><span>maintenance tasks<\/span><\/a><span> on our free knowledge website.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The researchers recommend further measures.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">One is <\/span><span class=\"s2\">recruiting<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> legal professionals as supervising editors to certify page quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Another is augmenting the<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> free legal <\/span><span class=\"s1\">content o<\/span><span class=\"s2\">n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0more<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">authoritative\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">sites<\/span><span class=\"s1\">. One<span class=\"s1\"\/>\u00a0potential model is the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/\">Oyez Project<\/a>, which provides free synopses of recent decisions made by the US Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIn either case, we envision a strong role for professional societies,\u201d said Thompson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe hope they\u2019ll see our results and form committees of experts to engage with Wikipedia and other information sources to work to make them more authoritative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>You can read the study paper <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deliverypdf.ssrn.com\/delivery.php?ID=358086124121109119105125126116086066005053028051000082065084065119118114101068064106013057098023052127028113122091000083110071109016014016004014031118119006027096073066040001127020025010031124105093086122092117104079086127092080094008123080004069104&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE\">here<\/a>.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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