Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia alleging a pattern of liberal bias in articles on the collaborative encyclopedia.
“I write to request information about ideological bias on the Wikipedia platform and at the Wikimedia Foundation,” Cruz wrote to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander in a letter dated October 3. “Wikipedia began with a noble concept: crowdsource human knowledge using verifiable sources and make it free to the public. That’s what makes reports of Wikipedia’s systemic bias especially troubling.”
Citing research from the conservative Manhattan Institute, Cruz wrote that “researchers have found that articles on the site often reflect a left-wing bias.” Cruz alleged that “bias is particularly evident in Wikipedia’s reliable sources/perennial sources list” because it describes “MSNBC and CNN as ‘generally reliable’ sources, while listing Fox News as a ‘generally unreliable’ source for politics and science. The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center gets a top rating, but the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, is a ‘blacklisted’ and ‘deprecated’ source that Wikipedia’s editors have determined ‘promotes disinformation.’”
What a chode
Sorry Ted, no one will ever forget how Trump made your suck his cock after he insulted your wife.
It must not be protecting pedofiles hard enough
To fascists like Cruz, “left wing bias” means “they are reporting unbiased data instead of compliantly rewriting everything to align with our centralized propaganda machine.”
Interesting, is it not, that .ml also started beefing with Wikipedia exactly as this becomes a thing for conservatives.
I think most of the world is considered left wing compared to the US.
Hell, even our “extreme right” would be more left leaning than the US left.
So yeah, any website that has international contributors, will be “left wing” from the perspective of the US.
To quote “Stephen Colbert” (the character) at one of the George W. Bush White House Correspondants Dinners:
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
I continue to think its extremely insensitive to call him Ted. He doesn’t believe in preferred names. Use his real name Rafael Edward Cruz. Yes its /s but I’m serious. Call that POS Rafael.
Whatever his preferred name is, I think we can all agree that he is 100% human.
wikipedia just tells the truth it just happens that the truth has a left-wing bias
Cruz alleged that “bias is particularly evident in Wikipedia’s reliable sources/perennial sources list” because it describes “MSNBC and CNN as ‘generally reliable’ sources, while listing Fox News as a ‘generally unreliable’ source for politics and science.
Fox News, the one that successfully argued in court they they were for entertainment purposes only and not actual news? That Fox News?
Here’s an opinion piece about this, in case anyone is curious: https://niemanreports.org/fox-dominion-lawsuit/
I love it when this comes up in internet arguments. The mob often agrees with an individual’s statement that Wikipedia is bad, and then when asked for an example it’s always 100% something absolutely insane. The logical conclusion is that we’re all wrong in different ways, but some people simply refuse to accept it and argue with the encyclopedia.
Any publisher of truth exhibits strong anti-fascist bias. That’s because fascism is inherently anti-truth
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Now seems like a good time to do a backup.
For local use: https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/
If you have a server: https://blog.stefan-koch.name/2024/11/14/self-hosting-wikipedia
(Kiwix-serve is what you’re looking for)
Unfortunately I can’t vouch for either of these instructions as I followed instructions from a now defunct privacy podcast.
Not false. Reality is proven to have a left-wing bias.
