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points by rythmshifter 2 days ago | 0 comments
What about cleaning up biased human editors
[–] fomoz 2 days ago
That will never happen. I don't see why people worship Wikipedia.

Most of its non-neutral articles are biased and don't say they are biased. The only articles that are decent are math or astrophysics, anything related to news or current events always leans one way.

[–] nailer 2 days ago
This. If Wikipedia wanted to address something, they could look at issues like these - just from October:

- ADL report finds 91% of banned editor’s Israel-related edits still live on key pages. https://www.timesofisrael.com/biased-wikipedia-edits-on-isra...

- Forensic details of Oct. 7 atrocities (sexual violence, burned victims) removed and never restored on Gaza war page. https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-wikipedias-d...

- Editor JDiala admits 10-15% of active accounts since Oct. 7 were sockpuppets or Discord-coordinated for pro-Palestine bias. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-911291

- Hamas page restructured days after Oct. 7 to move antisemitism and abuses material to low-traffic “Criticism” article. https://www.foxnews.com/media/first-fox-wikipedias-editorial...

- New cohort of 19 editors uses subtle methods (undoing, hedging, slow rewrites) and controls latest versions on ~60% of examined pages. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-911852

[–] slowin 2 days ago
Israel (and the ADL) have both clearly stated that they're spending a lot of money and effort to put hasbara all over the internet, and try to train AI with it. Accurately reporting of Israel's genocide, land theft, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, spying and their many war crimes absolutely belong on Wikipedia. Zionist hasbara propaganda does not.