- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
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.
Is this the nutter who made conservapedia? Cuz that place is a shitshow and the dude is bonkers
Citizendium. Conservapedia was founded by Andrew Schlafly.
Oh, so a completely different cofounding nutter who spun up an alternative to wikipedia?
… Two nickels! Not a lot, but weird that it happened twice.