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A hashtag set up to substitute for Wikipedia on Wednesday was trending on Twitter briefly, worldwide and in the United States. The hashtag — #altwiki — is being monitored by The Washington Post, the Guardian and NPR, who plan to respond to questions while Wikipedia limits access to its website to protest two bills it believes will unduly restrict Internet freedom in the interest of protecting copyright. The Post’s engagement editor, David Beard, described the project as “an experimental, one-day Band-Aid.” A related project, using the hashtag #FactsWithoutWikipedia, is now trending in the U.S. That project has a seemingly opposite purpose as people use it to spread “unverified, entirely made-up facts” (and very funny ones). So maybe it actually has the same purpose: to remind us how dependent we are on the Internet for information.
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