Also: msm.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is not neutral.
Specific topics like: politics, social, religion and health are highly edited and controlled.
Any profile of a leading public figure reads like a sanitized CV.
Thankfully, you can check the history of edits for each page and you can see for yourself.
However topics like: maths, tech, computer science are pretty trust worthy, because they are not that susceptible to bias.
Wikipedia doesn't show you all the angles of a specific topic, therefore cannot help you completely understand the topic, and it takes your right to decide what's true based on all available evidence.
Even worse, it can make you think the opposite, eg: can make you think that a drug is healthy for you, when in fact it's considered dangerous by many, but you can't find that information on Wikipedia.
Links
Inside the world of Wikipedia's deaditors
https://theface.com/life/inside-the-world-of-wikipedias-deaditors-editors-volunteers-queen-elizabeth-ii
Ever wondered how Wiki pages are updated so quickly when someone dies? It’s all thanks to a community of dedicated volunteers, who are so fast they even beat the BBC to announcing the Queen’s death
Judges could be manipulated by Wikipedia articles, MIT study warns
Posted August 3, 2022
https://thenextweb.com/news/wikipedia-influencing-judicial-decisions-could-manipulate-judges-mit
Wikipedia may be shaping legal precedents
A study led by Neil Thompson from MIT's Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) discovered that judges were more likely to cite legal cases that have a Wikipedia article.
The finding has sparked concerns that judicial decisions are being shaped by unreliable information. The openness of Wikipedia could also lead legal judgements to be manipulated.
The study found that a Wikipedia article increases a case’s citations in Ireland by more than 20%. This boost was far bigger for citations by lower courts, which suggests the site is used more by judges or clerks with heavier workloads.
Strikingly, the language used in Wikipedia entries was shown to influence the actual arguments used in judicial decisions.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4174200
Posted 1 Aug 2022
Trial by Internet: A randomized field experiment on Wikipedia's Influence on Judges' Legal Reasoning
Forthcoming in Cambridge handbook of experimental jurisprudence, editor Kevin Tobia, Cambridge University Press
Video: Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created
Posted 14 Jul 2021
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l0P4Cf0UCwU
Wikipedia editing companies…?!
Eastern medicine is labeled as quackery
Wikipedia criticism with a scottish accent
By Larry Sanger
https://larrysanger.org/2022/03/sanger-oliver
Wikipedia co-founder tells Neil Oliver: The Establishment Left radicals have taken over the website
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_6ljDN0U8
Wikipedia is badly biased
By Larry Sanger
https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased
Who writes Wikipedia?
Posted September 6 2006
http://aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
