LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. In this interview exposing Wikipedia’s leftist bias, one of the things discussed is Wikipedia’s “Black List,” which lists numerous conservative media outlets as unreliable and unusable. Incidentally, there is an obvious focus in the list against pro-Israel media outlets.
From The Epoch Times
Larry Sanger is the co-founder of Wikipedia and coined the name “Wikipedia’ in 2001. He established many of Wikipedia’s founding policies, including the original neutrality guidelines, before he left in 2002.
Since then, he has become a vocal critic of Wikipedia’s growing ideological bias, particularly on politically charged issues.
Sanger says certain outlets are favored as sources while others are blacklisted, creating systemic distortion and exclusion of dissenting views.
Most of Wikipedia’s top editors are anonymous, which means that people have no legal recourse for lies or inaccuracies about them that may be published on Wikipedia’s pages. Click here to continue reading or to watch video version.
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