Posted on 10/03/2025 11:03:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger made waves this week when he discussed the crowdsourced website’s outright censorship of conservative voices via a blacklist of banned news outlets.
For me, Sanger’s revelation came as no surprise: The news publication I founded and run, the Federalist, has been viciously censored by Wikipedia’s cabal of anonymous editors for more than a decade.
We originally drew Wikipedia’s ire back in 2014 when we exposed left-wing darling Neil deGrasse Tyson as a serial fabulist and fabricator.
At the time, the astrophysicist and professional bigmouth was going around the country giving talks about the ignorance and innumeracy of most journalists and politicians.
He had a point! I, too, doubt the ability of most people in politics to tally a tip without a calculator.
But unfortunately for Tyson, many of the examples he used as evidence of their incompetence didn’t exist.
As we reported, LexisNexis failed to return any results for the headlines and quotes featured in Tyson’s presentation. Tyson simply made them up.
As we dug deeper into Tyson’s history, we found even more examples of stories that just didn’t add up — most glaringly, his outright fabrication of a quote he attributed to former President George W. Bush.
Tyson, we reported, used the fake quote to smear Bush as a dummy and to deride Christians as idiots who don’t understand the universe as well as scientists like himself.
But Bush’s top speechwriters and press aides all attested he’d never said what Tyson claimed, and even the Washington Post reported that Tyson “regularly repeated a false account” to “cast aspersions on another public figure.”
Wikipedia’s editors would have none of it. They erased all evidence of Tyson’s repeated fabrications and falsehoods from the site.
“Telling a funny anecdote with fudgy details to make a joke/point is not a controversy,” sniffed one of the anonymous...
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The Left: “The sky is falling...”
Private individuals and private enterprise can say and do whatever they want. God-given rights and protected by the Constitution the Supreme Law of the land..
- Rolls eyes-
Hyperbole.
As a source, WP is no better than the last person to edit a page. It’s not reliable.
I noticed they have sanitized the biographies of many famous people.
If you know a source censor information, or has heavy biases, then you know to avoid using that source of site.
It’s why CNN and MSNBC have a very low number of users. If you have any sort of intelligence, you can spot BS as soon as you encounter it.
Drama Queens everywhere.
Correct. Unfortunately some FReepers want to keep these enemy outlets in business.
You could fill every Macy’s parade ballon with the gas Neil “The Gas” Tyson emits in just a single 20-minute interview alone.
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