by Chris Black
When your common normie desires to look one thing up for fast info, the place do they go?
Wikipedia.
They’re unlikely to critically look at the content material of the article or the sources offered, that are sometimes going to be propaganda items by the mainstream press.
Wikipedia’s sourcing coverage makes it almost unattainable to make use of something apart from mainstream media articles as “respected sources” for something having to do with present occasions, so naturally all the things pertaining to present occasions is absolutely NPR-brained alternate actuality stuff.
As an illustration, there may be a whole cavalcade of “Trump admin scandal articles,” however nearly none about any of the scandals that occurred beneath Obama.
Why?
As a result of that’s how the press selected to misrepresent actuality.
Everyone knows the Obama admin had quite a few scandals; the IRS scandal, ATF gun strolling, solar energy cash laundering, Ukraine disaster, it goes on.
The content material on Wikipedia is nothing however a type of “info laundering” lifted from mainstream press editorializing. And I’m actually unsure what to do about it.
There aren’t any actual requirements for regulating one thing like Wikipedia and it appears unlikely that there ever may very well be beneath the type of authorities now we have.
The worst factor about it’s that Wikipedia has achieved job of promoting itself as a “grassroots” supply of data when it’s, in truth, closely curated by extremely motivated ideologues.
However normies don’t know that…
Wikipedia Co-founder says:
“The articles are so biased, in truth, that it’s truthful to name them propaganda”:
