How Wikipedia Got Captured: Leftist Editors & Foreign Influence on the Internet
Wikipedia is “Wokepedia,” complains Elon Musk. That’s because it’s become so left-wing.
“It’s designed to push an ideological agenda that you can’t see,” says journalist Ashley Rindsberg in my new video. He runs “Neutral Point of View,” a Substack publication that exposes Wikipedia bias.
“So what if it’s biased?” I ask. “It’s just one website.”
“Wikipedia’s information spreads into everything online,” he replies, “ChatGPT, ... Siri, Alexa. Ask a question, it is all Wikipedia.”
As a result, “a few thousand powerful editors determine what gets counted as information.”
Those editors sure hate President Donald Trump. When he put undocumented immigrants in what people called “cages” at detention centers, Wikipedia editors listed the centers under “concentration camps.”
Since Wikipedia says, “anyone can edit,” I tried to put that in perspective, adding, “President Obama built these cages.”
Within a day, my edit was taken down.
“Wikipedia has definitely been taken over by woke activists,” says Rindsberg.
An editor of my page even posts pictures of Lenin and Che on his website profile!
To make sure the content stays leftist, Wikipedia labels conservative media “unreliable.” Editors should not cite Fox News, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, the New York Post ...
By contrast, Wikipedia labels CNN, and even MSNBC, VOX, Slate, The Nation, and Mother Jones, “reliable.”
That’s nuts. Fox sometimes gets things wrong, but MSN and Slate don’t?
Another example: After years of leftist media labeling the claim that COVID leaked from a lab a “conspiracy theory,” most eventually acknowledged on the new evidence.
“COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China,” summarized the “Today” show.
But Wikipedia still says there’s “no evidence supporting laboratory involvement.”
My own Wikipedia page is filled with not just mistakes but smears. Wikipedia editors make me look cruel.
They claim that when I anchored “20/20,” I complained that AIDS research gets “too much funding.”
But all I’d said was that AIDS research gets disproportionate funding compared to other diseases -- diseases that kill more people.
Former President Bill Clinton said the same thing: “We’re spending 10 times as much per fatality on people with AIDS!”
They don’t trash him, just me.
Wikipedia’s socialists sure hate libertarians.
It’s not fair.
“There’s no recourse, there’s no accountability,” says Rindsberg. “Nobody for you to talk to and say, ‘This is wrong.’ If this was a news organization, there would be an avenue or a channel for you to at least address it. In Wikipedia’s case, that is not true.”
At least things may be changing now, because there are new options, like SciencePedia and Justapedia, covering science and law.
“Justapedia,” says Rindsberg, “was founded by a veteran Wikipedia editor who couldn’t handle the left-wing bias. ... This is exactly what we need ... people to be able to choose among different sources, so we’re not all forced into the Wikipedia information funnel.”
Most importantly, since he has an extraordinary track record of success, is Elon Musk’s Grokipedia. It’s new and AI, so it makes mistakes, but Grok currently leads AI intelligence tests.
When it comes to topics I checked out, such as the probable origins of COVID, and my page, Grokipedia does better.
“Is there any way to fix Wikipedia?” I ask Rindsberg.
“The best chance we have is for dedicated people who are really interested in these topics to get in there and become an editor that can make those kinds of changes. We only need a few dozen, maybe even fewer, to make an impact ... If enough people say ... ‘I’m going to give it a go.’ ... they actually can make an impact. The question is, are enough people going to take that leap?”
I hope you who read this column will!
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Here is a section from Wikipedia's "Wind Power in Maine"
Community debate
A statewide poll in Spring 2007 by the Pan Atlantic SMS Group showed that 85% of Maine people supported wind power development.[66]
A 2009 poll conducted by Portland-based Critical Insights shows that 90% of Maine people support the development of wind power as a source of electricity. Nearly nine in ten Mainers agree that "wind power can improve energy security and reduce Maine’s dependence on fossil fuels, and eight in ten agree that wind power will produce jobs and other forms of economic benefits".[66]
In a 2010 statewide telephone poll of 500 registered voters, 88 percent supported wind power in Maine. Calls to residents in seven rural counties, from Aroostook to Oxford, where most wind power projects are built or planned, showed 83 percent support. Survey results show that Maine residents strongly support wind power development, chiefly because it cuts dependence on fossil fuels and creates jobs. The survey was done by Portland-based Pan Atlantic SMS Group for the Maine Renewable Energy Association.[67]
Some community opposition has arisen, in the form of litigation against mountain wind farms and an ocean wind turbine proposal, as civic activism, and as development of municipal ordinances.[68][69][70][71]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Maine
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Per Duck Duck Go chat (for what it's worth):
To find out who the editors are on a Wikipedia entry, follow these steps:
Navigate to the Article: Go to the Wikipedia page you’re interested in.
View History: Click on the "View history" tab located at the top of the article. This will take you to the page that lists all edits made to the article.
Check Recent Edits: In the history page, you'll see a list of edits, including the date, time, and usernames or IP addresses of the editors.
User Contributions: You can click on a username to see their contributions to Wikipedia, providing insight into other articles they have edited.
Each edit entry will typically show whether it was made by a registered user or an IP address, giving you a sense of who has been contributing to that article.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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