Once the butt of jokes for being the site where visitors could find anything, true or not, Wikipedia in recent years has become a more trusted source… - Noam Cohen

Through Google, you can find the horrible things people say about you, and the nice things they say about you. And so I do that regularly to sort of check on it.

As a fresh wave of Ebola fear grips the American public, the Internet is rife with conspiracy theories, supposed miracle cures and Twitter posts of dread. But amid the fear mongering are several influential sites that are sticking to the facts about Ebola. Millions have come to rely on these sites, including those run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and Wikipedia.

Unlike in the United States, where freedom of expression is a fundamental right that supersedes other interests, Europe views an individual’s privacy and freedom of expression as almost equal rights.