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  • I completely agree, though they have an interesting policy where they themselves cannot be a primary source of information but can only quote secondary (news) sources.

    The aim of this policy is to stay as impartial as possible, so that a Wikipedia page can link to another page, but not cite another Wikipedia page as a news source.

    Great in theory, but the reality is that they remove hundreds of pages of content where the primary sources of that page (usually a news website) is no longer accessible (archive.org or otherwise).

    Right-wing news media can therefore win in the longrun by simply keeping their news sources always online and available for Wikipedia to source, since left-wing news media is more likely to have expired links. Overtime this will compound to a right-wing bias.

    The best thing for anyone to do therefore is to fund the archiving sites. Archive.org in particular is a crucial piece of news infrastructure keeping Wikipedia balanced.



  • tetris11@feddit.uktoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBelief
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    13 days ago

    You dont see the coordinated efforts of several right-wing billionaires to influence elections and public thought through corruption and social media, as well as the actions of private equity firms swallowing up any market that lets them, raising the prices on basic things like food and housing… all that, doesn’t frighten you?

    I hope you’re right, but I feel like we’re barely prepared for what’s coming next.