Fake Wikipedia polluted nearly half of all CIA Director bios
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 6:10 pm
According to former CIA officer Ned Price, latterly spokesperson of the National Security Council, who quit the agency rather than serve under Trump, the current CIA Director and newly appointed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is [u]not[/u] a Gulf War 1 veteran.
This is despite the fact "nearly half" of all his "public biographies", including the sources used by 51 Members of Congress in drafting their letter endorsing him for Sec. State, claim he did. He was in the Army at the time, but was not deployed.
https://splinternews.com/the-cia-says-m ... 1825422682
Price sadly focuses on whether or not Pompeo was happy for this error to go uncorrected, when in reality, the real story here is it looks like the source of this disinformation is none other than the good old fake news fighters, Teh Wikipedia.
Quartz happily takes up that angle in great investigatory detail, while also giving Pompeo the stinkeye.....
https://qz.com/1258418/mike-pompeos-gul ... wikipedia/
It turns out it was added there by an IP user on a mobile phone on 1 December 2016, and despite it proliferating into numerous reliable sources, amazingly it never got retconned back into the article as a source (to complete the virtuous circle of citogenisis). It just stayed there, as an unverified fact on the Wikipedia biography of the eventual CIA Director. Proof that they're not checking shit.
Even more fucked up....the first newspaper seen using it, was none other than the goddam Washington Post.
Wikipedia and all its stupid supporters and flunkies need to just get into the sea.
This is despite the fact "nearly half" of all his "public biographies", including the sources used by 51 Members of Congress in drafting their letter endorsing him for Sec. State, claim he did. He was in the Army at the time, but was not deployed.
https://splinternews.com/the-cia-says-m ... 1825422682
Price sadly focuses on whether or not Pompeo was happy for this error to go uncorrected, when in reality, the real story here is it looks like the source of this disinformation is none other than the good old fake news fighters, Teh Wikipedia.
Quartz happily takes up that angle in great investigatory detail, while also giving Pompeo the stinkeye.....
https://qz.com/1258418/mike-pompeos-gul ... wikipedia/
It turns out it was added there by an IP user on a mobile phone on 1 December 2016, and despite it proliferating into numerous reliable sources, amazingly it never got retconned back into the article as a source (to complete the virtuous circle of citogenisis). It just stayed there, as an unverified fact on the Wikipedia biography of the eventual CIA Director. Proof that they're not checking shit.
Even more fucked up....the first newspaper seen using it, was none other than the goddam Washington Post.
Wikipedia and all its stupid supporters and flunkies need to just get into the sea.