Ina Fried, the official Axios apologist for Wikipedia
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:49 pm
I can only recall a few mentions of this woman on WP forums in the past. She runs a little-noticed dedicated campaign to whitewash Wikipedia's problems on Axios (started in 2016 by three refugees from Politico, and apparently still not a big success). Axios is a deliberately "short form only" reporting site, intended for short attention spans in the "Tiktok internet" era blah blah. Ina is supposed to cover tech news in general--but for the past year, somehow she finds occasional time to mushmouth homilies about the "world's greatest encyclo-thing". Homilies that appear as if they were dictated by WMF employees.
Let me post some of Ina's screeds. Seriously, is the WMF paying her?
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/15/wikipe ... ided-world
https://www.axios.com/2022/02/18/wikipe ... nformation
https://www.axios.com/2021/01/15/wikipe ... nniversary
https://www.axios.com/2022/03/30/meta-r ... gender-gap
I could mutter about millennials here, but you've heard that too many times already.
Let me post some of Ina's screeds. Seriously, is the WMF paying her?
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/15/wikipe ... ided-world
https://www.axios.com/2022/02/18/wikipe ... nformation
https://www.axios.com/2021/01/15/wikipe ... nniversary
https://www.axios.com/2022/03/30/meta-r ... gender-gap
I could mutter about millennials here, but you've heard that too many times already.