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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger accused the CIA and corporate actors of editing the online encyclopedia to serve state and institutional interests during an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung published on 7 August.
“I believe Wikipedia is already compromised,” Sanger said.
He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.
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“The powerful are very interested in Wikipedia,” he said, describing the site’s pseudonyms as a mask, saying that the platform treats the positions of institutions such as the World Economic Forum and the World Bank as established fact.
If they gave a shit about truth they’d make strict requirements for where does the information presented in the website come from. Anything without a known name to pin it to, has to be explicitly labeled as hearsay. Only to be allowed in the “Unverified facts” section.
None of this half-assed good for nothing wishy washy disclaimer in some corner of the website.
That is how it works! “Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.” If you don’t like something in an article, and there’s no source or an unreliable source, you can edit it to remove those claims and no one will push back on this.