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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.
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.
Dude is delusional. Don’t take his views as evidence.
The Israeli perspective: “But have you considered that Arabs aren’t human?”
Well known ally of the Palestinian people, the *checks notes* CIA
seconding this. larry is a known rightoid crank
I was wondering why stuff like that would show up in a chud hangout like the Berliner Zeitung, but yeah, that clears it up.
This guy has been doing this for years and it’s a sign of the average intelligence of this hellsite that this shit is upvoted.
It seems like most people haven’t even read the article, let alone googled the subject or investigated the publication. Clown world shit.
Weird thing is, he has definitely come up in the feed before (maybe in All though). It was a very different framing then.
He also got mad in 2020 about Wikipedia being too one-sided on covid