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The left-wing bias of Wikipedia
- PaulHoule 6y agoReality has a left-wing bias compared to Rhetoric. Or rather, rhetoric has a right-wing bias because "he who pays the piper calls the tune". People like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife spend a fantastic amount to push various right-wing causes. For instance they could easily pay people all day to edit Wikipedia and if there were not countermeasures we would see a lot more of it. (e.g. «General Motors» would love to own its Wikipedia page)
- pmdulaney 6y agoDoes it go without saying that an organization that points out the left-wing bias of Wikipedia must itself be right wing? I am a conservative myself and it seems that rational and self-critiquing liberals are in short supply these days.