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Wikipedia is being manipulated, you can't trust anybody now
We are truly doomed. If this is part of the current problem we are so f'ed. I mean what happened to all the weapons of mass destructions. And now this - you can't trust Wikipedia how the f am i supposed to do home work much less invest my retirement savings?
- mmilenko 18y agoAw shucks!
- bayareaguy 18y agoThe title of this submission should be changed to that of the actual article: Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts
- sfk 18y ago'Byrne has long argued that the press dismissed his views at least in part because Weiss - hiding behind various anonymous accounts - spent years controlling the relevant articles on Wikipedia, the "free online encyclopedia anyone can edit."' If The Register is reporting this correctly - a long shot by current online journalism standards - then this guy is simply a crank. Who needs Wikipedia in order to get heard?
- greyman 18y agoI wouldn't call him a crank, maybe he is even right, but this was my thought as well...he could maintain a blog for example, write all his findings there a now everyone could see what he was up to back then.
- dhbradshaw 18y agoOn niche subjects where certain parties have vested interests, this is almost bound to happen. In such cases, Wikipedia is like power up-for-grabs. People who care will take it.
- te_platt 18y agoWhat is the world coming to? If you can't trust information about controversial topics posted through anonymous accounts on the internet then who can you trust?
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