Mark Dice
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:47 am
Mark Dice put out an episode today on his YouTube channel on wikipedia. its not bad imo. 
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Wikipedia was launched in 2001 as an
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online encyclopedia that crowdsourced
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its articles by allowing anyone to write
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and edit them a strange business model
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that has surprisingly led to them
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becoming the fifth most popular website
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in the world its name derives from the
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words Wiki which is a website format
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that allows collaborative modifications
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and encyclopedia they currently have
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over 5 million articles and are usually
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one of the top Google search results for
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most subjects entered into the search
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engine unlike traditional encyclopedias
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which are written and edited by experts
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in their field pretty much anyone can
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add almost anything to Wikipedia
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articles which are then read and
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believed by countless people online
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since Wikipedia has become the most
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popular online encyclopedia and one of
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the most visited websites in the world
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people need to know about what a serious
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problem Wikipedia is and how it's a huge
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part of the fake news industrial complex
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editors at most newspapers and
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traditional encyclopedia companies have
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names and titles not to mention bosses
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and company policies that they must
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abide by but much of what happens on
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Wikipedia is a mystery and most of the
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editors and writers are Anonymous or
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only referred to by their online handles
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which rarely reveal any information
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about who they are or what credentials
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they have if any since Wikipedia is free
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and there are no advertisements on the
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site this leads to the question of who
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funds them and how do they free online
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encyclopedia that was written by random
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Anonymous people on the internet come to
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be a trusted source of information by so
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many people I'll get into all that and
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more but first real quick subscribe to
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my channel if you're new here because
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you're not going to find information and
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an analysis like this anywhere else
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online the parent company the wicked
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media Foundation employs over 700 people
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many of them contractors and they
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started off with about fifty thousand
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dollars in Assets in 2004 which grew
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over 50 million dollars by 2014 to over
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230 million million dollars in assets
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today where does all this money come
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from and what are they doing with it
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since the articles are written and
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edited by random volunteers on the
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internet who have too much time on their
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hands apparently people just give them
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money a lot of money in 2008 they got
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their biggest donation to date which was
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three million dollars from the Alfred P
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Sloan Foundation a philanthropic
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non-profit organization founded by the
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former CEO of General Motors they would
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later give Millions more Google has also
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given millions of dollars to them as
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well so it's no wonder that Wikipedia
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articles are usually one of the top
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search results for just about anything
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Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has
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given them hundreds of thousands of
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dollars of his own personal money on top
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of the money that Google gave them as
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Corporation all these donations are tax
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deductible because they're registered as
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a non-profit organization a non-profit
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organization worth 230 million dollars
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Wikipedia has been involved in numerous
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lawsuits over defamation and a
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substantial amount of their money has
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been spent defending them it seems those
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are worthwhile tax write-offs and a
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necessary part of doing business as a
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disinformation website articles about
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controversial subjects like global
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warming illegal immigration and abortion
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all have massive liberal bias and
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entries about living people particularly
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conservative authors and journalists and
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activists are the most biased and
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defamatory on the entire website because
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Wikipedia has become the go-to place for
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most people when they want to look
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something up major corporations use sock
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puppet accounts to edit pages about
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their companies and products trying to
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paint them in a favorable light and
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scrub criticism such edits have been
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traced back to people at companies like
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Pepsi Sea World Walmart Exxon Mobil and
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others since no company wants negative
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information about them or their products
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on an encyclopedia article about them in
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2012 it was discovered that two
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employees of Wikipedia's parent company
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then Wikimedia Foundation also ran a
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public relations business which included
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editing and monitoring the Wikipedia
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pages of their clients and in 2015 it
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was revealed that some Wikipedia editors
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had been running a coordinated blackmail
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and extortion racket by using their
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editorial powers to allow the defamation
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of public figures and businesses if they
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didn't pay them protection money these
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editors would also contact businesses
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and lesser-known celebrities whose pages
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had been rejected due to lacking
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notoriety and tell them that they would
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repost the page if they paid them they
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also demanded monthly payments from the
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people to protect their pages from
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having unflattering information added
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pages of popular conservatives often
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have large controversies sections which
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contain long lists of every little thing
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they've said that liberals find
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objectionable or want to amplify Pages
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for Ann Coulter Sean Hanley Rush
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Limbaugh and Michael Savage all have the
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controversy section or the equivalent
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which no nitpick things they've said or
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done Wikipedia has even been known to
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use unflattering photos of conservatives
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in their profiles conversely there are
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relatively few liberal journalists or
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television pundits who have controversy
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section in their articles or have much
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negative information about them even
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mentioned at all for example there is no
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mention on msnbc's Lawrence O'Donnell's
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page about his conspiracy theories about
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President Trump which got so outrageous
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that he even claimed Vladimir Putin
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orchestrated the false flag attack in
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Syria using chemical weapons to help
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president Trump's approval ratings
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there's not a single mention on Michael
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Moore's page or congresswoman Maxine
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Waters page about their endless Russian
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conspiracy theories either you may
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recall that Maxine Waters even claims
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among other strange things that Russia
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coined the term crooked Hillary for
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Donald Trump transgender TV star Laverne
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Cox was born Roderick Cox a man but
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Wikipedia editors refused to allow his
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birth name to be mentioned in anywhere
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on his page Roderick was the first
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transgender person to appear on the
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cover of Time Magazine and is hail the
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hero in the Liber media but unlike every
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single other actor or actress on the
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planet who uses a stage name or legally
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changes their name Wikipedia will not
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allow any mention of the fact that
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Laverne Cox was born Roderick Cox many
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of Hollywood's biggest stars use stage
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names and well never mentioned in the
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traditional media their real names are
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always included on their Wikipedia page
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except for Laverne's Tom Cruise's real
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name is Tom apifer Nicholas Cage's real
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name is Nicholas Coppola singer Katy
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Perry's name is Katie Hudson there's a
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million of them and every other
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cisgender celebrity has their real name
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included on Wikipedia But the site gives
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special treatment to Laverne Cox and
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other transgender people including Jazz
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Jennings which is a pseudonym not just
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Jazz but also so Jennings the star of
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the TLC reality show which promoted Jazz
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as one of the youngest children ever to
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identify as transgender liberal
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political figures also get special
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treatment on Wikipedia by the editors
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who carefully guard their Pages trying
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to keep them portrayed in a positive
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light one investigation revealed that a
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single Wikipedia editor made over 2 000
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changes to Hillary Clinton's page over a
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10-year period from 2006 up until the
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time she announced she was running for
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president in 2016 in order to keep as
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much criticism off of it as possible the
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Wikipedia page for USA today's founding
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editor John siegenthaler Senior had once
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claimed that he was directly involved in
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the assassinations of John F Kennedy and
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his brother Bobby the edit was made as a
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joke by someone but it stayed up and
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when he learned of it he contacted Jimmy
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Wales the founder of Wikipedia But at
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first The Only Thing Wikipedia did is
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correct the spelling of a word in the
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entry tree and the false claims stayed
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on the website for four months before it
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was finally removed but not before the
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claims had been repeated on other
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websites a Turkish academic who traveled
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to Canada was reportedly detained
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several hours by immigration officials
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because of a false claim someone added
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to his Wikipedia page pro golfer fuzzy
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Zeller who once won the US Open and the
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Masters Tournament sued Wikipedia after
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somebody edited his page to say that he
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beat his wife and abused drugs
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allegations which were then picked up by
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other websites just a few days before a
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congressional midterm election someone
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changed the page of then House of
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Representatives minority leader Tom
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DeLay to say that he was a grand Dragon
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of the Republican Party a reference to
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the title of the leader of the KKK the
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IP address of the person who changed it
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was traced back to someone who
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reportedly worked for the New York Times
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people have even changed the pages of
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celebrities to indicate that they have
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died as a joke which has sometimes
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caused the fake news to spread far and
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wide across the internet a sociology
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student actually added a fake quote to
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the Wikipedia page of French composer
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Maurice Jarre immediately after his
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death as an experiment to see if media
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Outlets would pick it up in their
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obituaries and many did one study that
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measured how many people viewed pages
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that were vandalized with false
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information found that while 42 percent
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of the damage was repaired almost
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immediately the majority of the edits
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which were not quickly corrected were
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viewed hundreds of millions of times
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before the Articles had been fixed
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sometimes Wikipedia editors will even
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create an entire article about a topic
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or an issue hoping to shine a spotlight
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on it to further promote their political
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leanings for example there was a lengthy
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article titled the criticism of George W
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bush but the criticism of Barack Obama
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page had been deleted four different
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times by Wikipedia editors who kept
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claiming the article had no meaningful
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substantive content and called it an
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attack page after the edit Wars
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continued the site finally allowed the
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criticism of Barack Obama page to stay
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but renamed it to the public image of
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Obama and of course Obama's main page is
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mostly praise the article about the
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United States presidential election of
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2016 highlights liberals conspiracy
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theories about Russian interference
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saying on Donald Trump's page in the
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section about his campaign for president
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it claims the alt-right movement
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coalesced around Trump's candidacy and
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during the campaign Trump was accused of
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pandering to White nationalists and
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fact-checking organizations have
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denounced Trump for making a record
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number of false statements compared to
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other candidates there is even an
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article about what Wikipedia claims is
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the LGBT grooming conspiracy theory
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which tries to frame the countless
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instances of grooming activities which
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have been making the news over the last
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few years by LGBT extremist in schools
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drag shows for kids as if they're just
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normal behaviors in anyone who sees a
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problem with it is a right-wing
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extremist and a conspiracy theorist as
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you know white heterosexual Christian
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men are usually demonized as the cause
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of every evil in the world by the
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liberal media today white people are
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held in such disdain that they are often
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told that they should be ashamed of
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being white and if they have any measure
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of success in life it's because they
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have white privilege which is said to be
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the primary reason for it meaning they
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benefit from what liberals call an
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inherent white supremacist ideology
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incorporated into American society and
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institutions white people are being cast
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in such a Negative light in the media
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and on college campuses today that if
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any white person happens to be proud of
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their culture then they're painted as
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racist in a white supremacist of course
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every other race can be happy about who
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they are and the achievements of their
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culture except white people a comparison
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between the articles about white pride
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black pride and Asian pride on Wikipedia
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illustrates this double standard for
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example the white pride article states
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that white pride is a motto primarily
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used by white separatists white
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nationalist Neo-Nazi and white
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supremacist organizations in order to
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Signal racist or racialist viewpoints
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compare this to the article on black
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pride which reads black pride is a
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movement in response to dominant white
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cultures and ideologies that encourages
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black people to celebrate Black Culture
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and embrace their African Heritage the
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entry for Asian pride reads that in the
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United States Asian pride is a positive
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stance to being Asian American the
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anti-white bias in the pride articles is
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cultural Marxism which ironically
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Wikipedia calls a conspiracy theory
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cultural Marxism is the use of the media
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to perpetuate leftist ideologies such as
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political correctness gender bending and
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other sexual perversions as if they are
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normal and cool while attacking
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traditional Family Values American
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history and culture along with
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capitalism and the Bill of Rights
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cultural Marxism uses pop culture and
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celebrity icons to promote regressive
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leftist policies and behaviors to the
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masses so people will mimic these
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influencers by thinking their attitudes
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and actions are cool and Wikipedia
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doesn't just call culture Marxism a
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conspiracy theory they call it an
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anti-semitic conspiracy theory and cite
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the Southern Poverty Law Center as the
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source for their claim the fact that
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Wikipedia is the default online
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encyclopedia is horrifying considering
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I've only mentioned a handful of the
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problems the site has and with the
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ability to misinform so many people with
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bias and malicious information it
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shouldn't be considered a reliable
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source of information and should be fund
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