The Continuing and Spreading Corruption of Wikipedia

John Stossel offers disheartening observations on the fall of once-promising Wikipedia. The site is permeated with censorship. On any controversial topic, you can depend on Wikipedia to present you with a false consensus.

Stossel: “I once reported how great Wikipedia is. But now, it’s manipulated by leftists. That’s a big problem because its bad information corrupts AI and search results.”  Click on the graphic below for Stossel’s video report:

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Prior DI article mentioning Glenn Greenwald’s commentary on Wikipedia.

Neutral Point of View, by Ashley Rindsberg:

Readers of NPOV know that I’ve previously described Wikipedia as a methane fire — a flame that burns invisibly. WMF, in deploying its “most trusted source of information online” message, has blinded itself to reality: people are losing trust, and generally for good reason.

A recent article by Rindsberg reports: “WMF recently discovered that Wikipedia has seen an 8% decrease in traffic. Despite its 400-strong workforce of engineers and product specialists, WMF had no idea this was going on until it stumbled on the data during a bot purge.”

New alternative to Wikipedia: https://grokipedia.com/

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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