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Iffy-pedia: Up to six in ten articles on Wikipedia contain factual errors

Up to six in ten articles on Wikipedia contain inaccuracies, according to new research.

The number of factual errors shows just how unreliable it can be to use the online resource as a sole means of digging up information.

Yet millions base everything from school homework to corporate presentations using facts and figures they have gleaned from the site.

A study into, specifically, company information on the massively popular website discovered 60 per [...]