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Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger accused the CIA and corporate actors of editing the online encyclopedia to serve state and institutional interests during an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung published on 7 August.
"I believe Wikipedia is already compromised," Sanger said.
He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.
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"The powerful are very interested in Wikipedia," he said, describing the site's pseudonyms as a mask, saying that the platform treats the positions of institutions such as the World Economic Forum and the World Bank as established fact.
Lmao this dude is all over the place. The CIA is editing wikipedia but then making it sound like wikipedia's progressive bias on palestine comes from that? Nonsense lmao. Correct about the cia though
Correct, but still a dumb asshole
This guy is the least reliable source on the state of wikipedia ever.
He's mad that they don't platform hardcore rightwing shit or entertain debates about religious fanaticism. He's saying compromised by the lefty woke CIA to push their agenda.
On Gaza, Sanger said Wikipedia's coverage is "clearly very one-sided," in favor of Palestinians, and backed founder Jimmy Wales's intervention on the "Gaza genocide" article, where Wales argued the introduction should contain more of the Israeli perspective.
Dude is delusional. Don't take his views as evidence.
the introduction should contain more of the Israeli perspective.
The Israeli perspective: "But have you considered that Arabs aren't human?"
seconding this. larry is a known rightoid crank
wiKKKipedCIA
Stopped clock right for once
Dude is saying that Wiki has a "progressive" bias, like in the Gaza genocide. Fuck him too.
You can be right for the wrong reasons sometimes
He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.
We have breaking reports coming in from the Aquaticists that the water is quite wet right now.
No? Yes! Oh!
