What if someone tries to vandalize or insert disinformation into the Disinfopedia itself?
The Center for Media and Democracy, which sponsors Disinfopedia, has other channels through which we can expose people who attempt to manipulate its content, such as the Center’s PR Watch website and its “Weekly Spin” email. The Disinfopedia software also includes a number of features that make it possible to detect and manage vandalism. In keeping with our philosophy of creating a community-based “information commons,” these features enable the entire community of Internet users to collaborate in overseeing its content, in effect serving as a sort of online “neighborhood watch committee”: • Visitors to the site are invited to create individual user IDs. This makes it easy to track the editing activities of each logged-in user. Anonymous contributions by users who do not log in receive closer scrutiny than known and trusted users. • Logged-in users can create their own individual “watch lists” that let them keep an eye on articles that they feel deserve particular monitoring. They can
