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Wikipedia was founded on the notion the Internet is a self-correcting machine:by harnessing collective intelligence through an open-source platform,the facts will ultimately come to light.But a new study shows that collective intelligence generally produces biased information,except in a narrow range of circumstances.Northwestern’s Shane Greenstein and the University of Southern California’s Feng Zhu analyzed a decade’s worth of Wikipedia articles on U.S. politics and found that only a handful of them were politically neutral.Large numbers of contributors did,in fact,help make articles more unbiased, they note, confirming what’s known in the tech community as Linus’ Law:“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”