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by Daniel Brandt
Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: We'll Tell You What To Think
Replies: 8
Views: 640

Re: We'll Tell You What To Think

The Wiki playpen could certainly use some adult supervision. However, I think that most of these Wiki-children are useful idiots for the "Powers that Be", and these powers like it that way. https://www.rt.com/news/580735-cia-fbi-edits-wikipedia/ It is demoralizing for better-informed adults to swim ...
by Daniel Brandt
Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:42 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Hunter Biden and Wikipedia
Replies: 1
Views: 511

Hunter Biden and Wikipedia

https://www.rt.com/news/581379-hunter-b ... onsulting/

16 August 2023 -- Hunter Biden paid consulting firm to sanitize his Wikipedia bio; he wanted lines about his work with Burisma and a dodgy financier removed
by Daniel Brandt
Fri Aug 04, 2023 5:32 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Wikipedia gets mentioned in a "CIA and the Press" article
Replies: 14
Views: 2875

Re: Wikipedia gets mentioned in a "CIA and the Press" article

Here is the Larry Sanger interview by Glenn Greenwald that Russia Today mentioned:
https://scheerpost.com/2023/08/03/glenn ... yclopedia/
by Daniel Brandt
Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:18 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Wikipedia gets mentioned in a "CIA and the Press" article
Replies: 14
Views: 2875

Wikipedia gets mentioned in a "CIA and the Press" article

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/07/25/the-us-press-spooks-the-church-committee/ (an article by Patrick Lawrence) "Wikipedia, the alternative encyclopedia with its own objectionable relations with intelligence, as we speak carries this sentence in its entry on the Cold War programs: 'By the time the ...
by Daniel Brandt
Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Print encyclopedias are dead" is a LIE
Replies: 2
Views: 549

Re: "Print encyclopedias are dead" is a LIE

Wikipedia is becoming less important as chatbots are becoming more important. Even Ralph Nader is worried about our future, as chatbots get smarter and seem unstoppable:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/20 ... re-coming/
by Daniel Brandt
Mon May 29, 2023 7:40 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Wikipedia and Russia
Replies: 2
Views: 557

Wikipedia and Russia

https://www.rt.com/russia/574279-wikipe ... kraine-us/

6 Apr, 2023 10:02

Former editor explains Wikipedia's anti-Russia bias:
Ex-admin says that the online encyclopedia has become a
weapon in an information war
by Daniel Brandt
Fri May 26, 2023 9:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Wikipedia is dying, slowly
Replies: 21
Views: 2369

Re: Wikipedia is dying, slowly

I don't know what scandal you're talking about, but I think recent news qualifies as a scandal all by itself. This piece in the Washington Post is about how ChatGPT and similar bots are training society. It has information on how the chatbots get their data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology...
by Daniel Brandt
Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Wikipedia v. Russia
Replies: 2
Views: 406

Wikipedia v. Russia

2023-04-04: Russian official wants Wikipedia blocked
https://www.rt.com/russia/574154-wikipe ... ck-russia/


2023-04-06: Former editor explains Wikipedia's anti-Russia bias
https://www.rt.com/russia/574279-wikipe ... kraine-us/
by Daniel Brandt
Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Was Jimbo invited or not?
Replies: 0
Views: 364

Was Jimbo invited or not?

Remember this pic from 14 years ago? https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/business/worldbusiness/22deal.html Too bad Jimbo has been out of touch lately. He could have appeared onstage with Tony Blair (again) and Bill Clinton, without even changing out of his swimming trunks! https://www.trustnodes.com...