Wikipedia

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Launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia has over 30 million articles in almost 300 languages. It bills itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", and while that's true, reverting people's edits is really easy, and so is blocking users or IP addresses. Not everyone can do that. Who decides who can and who can't? Another hierarchy of privilege - which can be revoked if someone's decisions are deemed 'out of line' with the official narrative. Wikipedia is not as radically unbiased and fair as it purports to be.

Problems with Wikipedia

Main article: WikiSpooks:Problems_with_Wikipedia
Wikipedia's reliance on "reliable secondary sources such as mainstream media" further echoes the pattern of commercially-controlled media the world over, so at least on commercially or politically sensitive topics, Wikipedia displays a predictable pattern of symptoms:

Wikipedia's
Problems
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Wikipedia-logo-Bias.png Bias Wikipedia-logo-Censorship.png Censorship Wikipedia-logo-Gaps.png Gaps Wikipedia-logo-Spin.png Spin Wikipedia-logo-Obfuscation.png Obfuscation


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