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I know nothing about elon's wikipedia, but... Wikipedia has increasingly become a commercial project that exploits nationalistic sentiments. Take the Israel-Pa
by maxdo 10mo ago
I know nothing about elon's wikipedia, but...
Wikipedia has increasingly become a commercial project that exploits nationalistic sentiments. Take the Israel-Palestine or Ukraine-Russia conflicts as examples—you'll find completely contradictory articles on the same topics across different language editions, each reflecting opposing viewpoints.
Many of these editors are sponsored by governments, creating an entire ecosystem of smoke and mirrors: information bubbles that reinforce partisan narratives rather than presenting objective truth.
- rtkwe 10mo agoIt's not surprising or new, the English articles are usually the most thoroughly vetted and watched because that's the majority of wikipedia editor's language so the other languages are more vulnerable to national tinging of the article. It's still far better imo than Grok which is an explicitly biased project driven by Musk's personal issues with wikipedia and it's resistance in english to rightwing edit biasing. It's a suped up version of the old conservapedia project just with Grok driving the edits instead and it's being picked up in other LLMs as a citable source.
- tim333 10mo agoI'm not sure Wikipedia itself has become a commercial project but commercial enterprises will certainly try to influence their portrayal as will different interest groups in general. I guess it's just an inherent problem with that kind of thing. Any examples of sponsored editors? Google and the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_editing_incidents_on_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_editing_inci... don't seem to have them