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presidential election. Foundation staff worked for hand in hand with volunteers to establish clearer lines of communication between volunteers and staff to surface and address disinformation attempts, conducted research to better understand how disinformation could spread on
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the WMF had outside of the US that year. $ 68M divided by 374 is over $ 180K. 55.5M (total compensation paid) divided by 374 is about $ 148K; this would be net salaries without benefits and taxes two years ago, but bear in mind that the number of FTE would have been significantly smaller, given that
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So to summarize, it looks like the quoted text refers to a specific 2020 anti-disinformation effort specifically in the US and the stats do not link back to a central report or coordination page, whether on Meta-Wiki or elsewhere. Additionally, at first blush and per the
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fighter was alive and that the report was all
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For a remote org headquartered in San Francisco, I think it's safe to assume that the highest proportion of their salaries are benchmarked to the Bay Area. But even with the assumption that pay is by geography, $ 65k per employee is nowhere near accurate for an engineering-focused firm, which
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While I fully agree with Jimmy on improvements needed against disinformation, I don't think he or anyone needs to worry about what Elon was complaining about. Since it had little to do with "disinformation" and more to do with the fact that Knowledge actually had accurate properly referenced
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statement seems to conflate actions I'd expect editors to take without prompting (watchlisting pages, protecting pages, and reverting edits) with actions that the task force directly implemented (the "18 events" mentioned). Merkley laid out a little bit more about the WMF's investment in
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Aside from the overhead, which is easily an additional 30% above base salaries, $ 68k is nowhere near the average base salary for an engineering-focused org based in the Bay Area, which is the highest paid region of the US. I'd recommend taking the estimate out of the Signpost article.
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by user "tarantino", and the article was removed from the English Knowledge last month, but at the time of writing Alan MacMasters still lingers in one form or another in about a dozen other Knowledge language versions. –
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believed their money would be used to fund Capstone’s business deals, millions of dollars were used to pay for Pastor’s personal expenses and to fund a lavish lifestyle for himself and his wife ...
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this story came out, ProPublica released a much more interesting (and better reported) article that basically talks about how the
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