Posted on 06/21/2024 12:57:17 PM PDT by knighthawk
Researchers have uncovered what many Wikipedia users have long feared — that it's slanted against conservatives.
A study from the Manhattan Institute, a right-leaning think tank, says it has uncovered 'evidence of political bias embedded in Wikipedia articles.'
Donald Trump and other former right-wing presidents are presented in a negative light, the study says, while Barack Obama and other liberal leaders are puffed with positive write-ups.
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I’m not so surprised.
Annnnnd….
The sky is blue
WIKI can SHOVE IT. I used to look up bios.
Since before 2007.
I haven’t been by there in a while but at one point, Pres Trump was portrayed worse than Adolph, Josef and Chairman Mao added together. This is a while back but there was not one negative line on the communism page as an example.
Since before 2007.
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Yep.
In the early 2000s I contributed to various article pages. Usually just rare things that were not common knowledge that I happened to be familiar with. I didn’t make it a habit of going around interjecting on subjects that I knew others could be experts on. But almost any time I contributed something, some pretentious little snoot would get on there and reverse it, and use excuses like “no evidence” or “cite sources”. Once I added and changed some information about a website that I was personally familiar with the development of, and yet again, I had my content backed out of the article. It wasn’t worth going through the steps and effort to prove my knowledge on the subject. There were plenty of snoots throwing their weight around, feeling all in control.
Just like with the MSM, and more recently so many ‘influencers’ on social media, people get drunk with the delusion of power and grandeur that comes with believing you can influence social and political narrative. Even things that should be simple facts are used as weapons for social slant.
My few attempts at editing were also immediately reversed. Even little spelling or grammar corrections would disappear. I also got messages like, “Sorry but your IP address has been blocked from editing due to abusive behavior.” ??? Wikipedia is a joke.
[But almost any time I contributed something, some pretentious little snoot would get on there and reverse it, and use excuses like “no evidence” or “cite sources”. ]
The same. My edits were immediately removed.
No shick sherlock! And
It’s not only politics with the leftist favor thing though,
It is every shenanigan that they pull and think that we are to stupid to see through.
2020 STEAL
Gorbal warming
Russia russia russia
Lap top deny deny deny fifty oners
Wooflu vax vax vax
Orangeman bad bad bad
The three repeat meme reinforces the learning process for the cognitively declined as typified in their insidious medicare commercials “check your zipcode” audience attract.......and theres you have it.......
Election Interference on your Dime
Election Interference on your Dime
Election Interference on your Dime
That’s how encyclopedias work. Sources are cited.
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Yet, the people who were doing the reversing had absolutely no basis for their action. It was something I had first hand knowledge of and they did not. Things I knew to be a fact. To cite a source, I would have been forced to cite myself, and prove my identity. Again, not worth it, when I just wanted to contribute to the public body of knowledge on a topic to which I was position to have first hand exclusive or limited access to. The people who were doing other edits and contributions often did not have their challenged, and the people who reversed mine had no authority on the subject.
[Yet, the people who were doing the reversing had absolutely no basis for their action. It was something I had first hand knowledge of and they did not. Things I knew to be a fact. To cite a source, I would have been forced to cite myself, and prove my identity. Again, not worth it, when I just wanted to contribute to the public body of knowledge on a topic to which I was position to have first hand exclusive or limited access to. The people who were doing other edits and contributions often did not have their challenged, and the people who reversed mine had no authority on the subject.]
Wikipedia gurus attend conventions where these things are agreed upon & discussed.
I discovered this going through history of edits on their “Earth Day” article, to watch Ira Einhorn gradually reappear as you went back in time.
A few clicks revealed one of the main editors on that page (I think they are “assigned” certain areas to monitor), who had regularly attended annual global conferences of like-minded individuals. It was obvious from the conference pages it was not just a lib-fest, but a NWO-fest.
Who was funding it was obscure, and as you may have guessed, those links have long since disappeared.
Wikisuckia.
Kenya Userper NFG
Sounds like fake news
“have long feared”
not fear. we knew.
glad some people are catching up a little.
Thank you for sharing that. Yes, it has always been a propaganda machine catering to the global agenda. And it really ramped up before Obama’s run. They started rewriting history and reality.
“Just like with the MSM, and more recently so many ‘influencers’ on social media, people get drunk with the delusion of power and grandeur that comes with believing you can influence social and political narrative. Even things that should be simple facts are used as weapons for social slant.”
That can be said for forum moderators too... :)
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