Wikipedia Sucks!

According to this interview with Matt Taibbi, Wikipedia was meeting with the same government law enforcement and intelligence agents as well as political operatives, mainly from the Democratic Party, to censor or promote certain narratives since 2017:

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6318207836112

Matt Taibbi is not a partisan journalist, by the way, which is one reason why Elon Musk chose him to release the Twitter files. I assume he's willing to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson, because no one on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or the BBC is allowed to interview him.

It's fairly obvious that Wikipedia has a strong cabal of users who generally promote the Democratic Party and globalist narratives in Wikipedia, but I don't know if any of them are on government payroll. It may be that it was previously publicly revealed that the WMF was one of several social media companies invited to meet with government agencies about "Russian interference or misinformation", but I don't think we know the extent of WMF's involvement and/or any of its editors.

Not entirely related, but: https://mronline.org/2020/06/15/wikiped ... e-editing/

Cla68 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:57 pm

It's fairly obvious that Wikipedia has a strong cabal of users who generally promote the Democratic Party and globalist narratives in Wikipedia, but I don't know if any of them are on government payroll. It may be that it was previously publicly revealed that the WMF was one of several social media companies invited to meet with government agencies about "Russian interference or misinformation", but I don't think we know the extent of WMF's involvement and/or any of its editors.

And unless a major insider spills the beans, we never will. The involvement of pro-Russia propagandists in the US media is a subject no one drawing a substantial paycheck from a major media company wants to explore. WP and WMF are a hundred times more secretive and paranoid (incompetent too but who's counting).

https://mronline.org/2020/06/15/wikiped ... e-editing/

I fully expected that to happen. Back in 2020 they wanted to cancel the Greyzone as a "reliable source". Note that major Wiki-Assholes like Cirt, Guy Chapman, SandyGeorgia, Jayron32 etc. weighted in with their "opinions". All of THEM are "unreliable sources", but by god they have fanboy support in Wikiworld. Crude authoritarianism, left/right/whatever doesn't matter, is something they keep TRYING to implement. But being a mob of incompetent hoople-heads, they keep screwing it up.

Max Blumenthal is quite adept at infuriating people with rigid partisan political positions. Life is more complex than left-right, capitalist/socialist, blah blah than such people are willing to admit.