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    Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-frien

    Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competitor.....

    Aco-founder of Wikipedia is launching a competing website as a free-speech-friendly alternative to what he views as the increasingly monolithic left-wing bias of his former organization.


    Last May, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger wrote an op-ed on his personal website titled "Wikipedia is Badly Biased" claiming that Wikipedia's neutrality policy — known as "NPOV," or neutral point of view — "is dead."


    Now, when schoolchildren visit the Wikipedia website to look up answers to questions about the meaning of socialism, "they're going to find an explanation that completely ignores any conservative, libertarian, or critical treatment of the subject," Sanger told "Just the News AM" television program. "And that's really problematic. That's not education. That's propaganda."


    Wikipedia's socialism page claims, "The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century," Lott reported, but it "ignores a man-made famine in which Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin commandeered the food from regions like Ukraine and Kazakhstan, leaving millions to starve to death even as the Soviet Union exported grain to foreign countries."



    The press office of Wikepdia's non-profit parent, Wikimedia Foundation, did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News......snip~


    Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competitor | Just The News



    Its not suprising that the left would try to hide the atrocities of Socialism and Communism. Glad Sanger will start another site with the truth.
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    In a video posted to Twitter, Sanger announced the Encyclosphere, calling it "a free, giant, global knowledge commons without any central control." .....snip~


    Now he just needs to worry about Big Tech trying to cancel him.
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    Hell, many of the larger funders for Wikipedia Are Soros or Soros funded groups.

    It is the major reason that people will not use Wikipedia as a source.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    Hell, many of the larger funders for Wikipedia Are Soros or Soros funded groups.

    It is the major reason that people will not use Wikipedia as a source.
    Can you back up that assertion?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Can you back up that assertion?
    Can you back up that you are not a bot?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Can you back up that assertion?
    When people like Mark Levin, and Dan Bongino assert that Wikipedia entries about them are patently false, with no way to correct the record, it casts doubt on the entire site. Furthermore, it's not difficult to read the left wing slant on many entries. Not that libs concern themselves with accuracy, or the truth.
    Cutesy Time is OVER

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    When people like Mark Levin, and Dan Bongino assert that Wikipedia entries about them are patently false, with no way to correct the record, it casts doubt on the entire site. Furthermore, it's not difficult to read the left wing slant on many entries. Not that libs concern themselves with accuracy, or the truth.
    Well, you're not backing up the assertion that Soros or other leftists are contributors. I took a look at Levin's wiki page and from what I've listened to on his show, he IS exactly as he described by whatever research companies wrote about his show. Now, as far as wiki goes, there may indeed be some stuff that is wrong, but that would be - because - in the upper right hand corner of the pages you will see and "edit" link. If you are a member of wiki, you can log on, and edit things to say what ever you like. THAT is exactly why college students draw an instant F for listing Wikipedia as a source for their papers. Only a fool will use wiki as a legitimate source for anything. Bongino I know nothing about, so I won't comment.

    And you said "not that libs concern themselves with accuracy, or the truth", which in itself is a lie.

    So you can understand then why I ask all you guys on the right to prove what you say. But - you never do. It ain't the left; it's own political blind spot that betrays you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    Well, you're not backing up the assertion that Soros or other leftists are contributors. I took a look at Levin's wiki page and from what I've listened to on his show, he IS exactly as he described by whatever research companies wrote about his show. Now, as far as wiki goes, there may indeed be some stuff that is wrong, but that would be - because - in the upper right hand corner of the pages you will see and "edit" link. If you are a member of wiki, you can log on, and edit things to say what ever you like. THAT is exactly why college students draw an instant F for listing Wikipedia as a source for their papers. Only a fool will use wiki as a legitimate source for anything. Bongino I know nothing about, so I won't comment.

    And you said "not that libs concern themselves with accuracy, or the truth", which in itself is a lie.

    So you can understand then why I ask all you guys on the right to prove what you say. But - you never do. It ain't the left; it's own political blind spot that betrays you.
    Which entries about Levin specifically? List them, and provide proof. Every show Levin has ever done is archived. Link to your proof.
    Cutesy Time is OVER

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Which entries about Levin specifically? List them, and provide proof. Every show Levin has ever done is archived. Link to your proof.
    Go read the wiki page, under "Radio show". I didn't make those assertions, wiki did. I said that Levin uses the tactics listed because I've heard him do it. He'll do it again today if you listen and since I know you listen, then you know it's true. So, nice try, but I'm not going to waste my time thumbing through Mark Levin stuff to prove that he's an incendiary asshole.

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    UNCOVERED: WIKIPEDIA’S LEFTIST TIES AND ITS CENSORSHIP OF THE FACTS.....

    But exactly who is really behind the world’s largest source of information, and does their agenda, if one exists, ever shine through their supposedly “unbiased” wiki pages?


    Sue Gardner is just one example. She is the former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation and served in that role from December 2007 to May 2014. Her influence on Wikipedia is substantial and unquestioned. She was even named one of the 100 most powerful women in the world by Forbes in 2012.


    In addition to serving on Wikimedia’s Board of Trustees, Gardner has held a leadership position with the “nonpartisan” Sunlight Foundation (SF). SF has been funded by numerous left-wing organizations, such as the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundation and the Knight Foundation. SF even received $1 million in 2010 from the left-leaning Rockefeller Family Fund.


    Also connected to SF is Wikipedia founder and Wikimedia Board of Trustees member Jimmy Wales, who serves on the SF Advisory Board. Wales is not only connected to leftist groups through his role at the Sunlight Foundation, he also has close personal ties to multiple left-wing bigshots. Wales even attended one of George Soros’ birthday parties, according to The New York Times.



    Having a particular set of personal beliefs doesn’t necessarily mean there will be content bias, but the evidence suggests Wikipedia has been affected by its leftist leaders and many biased editors.


    In 2012, for example, Northwestern University’s Shane Greenstein and the University of Southern California’s Feng Zhu analyzed more than 70,000 Wikipedia articles published over 10 years related to U.S. politics to determine whether any bias existed in the material. Greenstein and Feng found there was a distinct bias favoring Democrats and their positions. The authors also discovered articles produced in the early 2000s were “very slanted” and less so after 2005. As time has gone on and more unbiased users have become involved in Wikipedia’s editing process, articles have become more balanced, Greenstein and Zhu say.



    Things may be improving, but Wikipedia’s bias remains obvious. Not only are factual, credible sources being removed in an effort to censor information that reflects badly on political projects such as global warming alarmism, net neutrality, and Obamacare, but the editors have also allowed dishonest, biased sources to mislead people on numerous wiki pages. For instance, climate alarmist William Connolley repeatedly removed factual material from Wikipedia pages in 2010 and earlier because it didn’t support his belief in man-caused catastrophic global warming, even while he was being investigated for poor practices.



    It’s true Wikipedia is an enormous project and its leadership cannot be held responsible for every foolish decision, but from the top down, the evidence shows Wikipedia is decidedly not a neutral source operated by unbiased editors, and all of its readers should keep that in mind whenever visiting the site......snip~


    News - Uncovered: Wikipedia’s Leftist Ties and Its Censorship of the Facts | Heartland Institute



    LMAO.....as usual Jet doesnt even have a clue. That is even with the Co creator of Wikipedia coming out and saying it isnt a neutral site. Co founder must have thrown him off, huh?
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