That (near decade-old) article really only describes conservative interests affecting the bias of the Wikipedia articles. Many editing incidents have happened since then, and they’re almost entirely attributable to conservatives bias, as well.
Of course, it’s the same with all of these other websites, but conservatives are the ones insisting that the entire internet is pitted against them by the powers that be when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
The description missed: desperate attempt of OP to paint Wikipedia (the open source successful project which democratized public knowledge) same colours as Facebook and Twitter.
Whenever I see these coy political memes I’m grateful that I’m not on the side where our extremists are the mainstream. The political theory is great, guys. In theory. Don’t make it your personality.
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How is wikipedia part of it?
Wikipedia is incredibly biased when it comes to political topics and it’s regularly curated by US government and corporations https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnk97k/the-internet-is-flooded-with-wikipedia-edits-made-by-government-and-big-oil
That (near decade-old) article really only describes conservative interests affecting the bias of the Wikipedia articles. Many editing incidents have happened since then, and they’re almost entirely attributable to conservatives bias, as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_editing_incidents_on_Wikipedia
Of course, it’s the same with all of these other websites, but conservatives are the ones insisting that the entire internet is pitted against them by the powers that be when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
The description missed: desperate attempt of OP to paint Wikipedia (the open source successful project which democratized public knowledge) same colours as Facebook and Twitter.
I wonder if there’s some kinda agenda behind it
Whenever I see these coy political memes I’m grateful that I’m not on the side where our extremists are the mainstream. The political theory is great, guys. In theory. Don’t make it your personality.