• Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    Bad news, Wikipedia is no better when it comes to economic or political articles.

    The fact that ADL is on Wikipedia’s “credible sources” page is all the proof you need.

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      9 months ago

      See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign

      Incidentally, the “WikiScanner” software that Virgil Griffin (a close friend of Aaron Swartz, incidentally) developed to chase down bulk Wiki edits has been decommissioned and the site shut down. Virgil is currently serving out a 63 month sentence for the crime of traveling to North Korea to attend a tech summit.

      Read into that what you will.

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        9 months ago

        Anther massive piece of evidence is the fact that Wikipedia is lying about about the 6 day war

        Six Day War Wikipedia:

        On 5 June 1967, as the UNEF was in the process of leaving the zone, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields and other facilities,

        The word pre-emptive is snuck in there as factual while in reality being either a complete lie, or highly controversial as all major US intelligence sources confirmed that Egypt had no interest in war before israel attacked.

        Neither U.S. nor Israeli intelligence assessed that there was any kind of serious threat of an Egyptian attack. On the contrary, both considered the possibility that Nasser might strike first as being extremely slim.

        The current Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael B. Oren, acknowledged in his book “Six Days of War“, widely regarded as the definitive account of the war, that “By all reports Israel received from the Americans, and according to its own intelligence, Nasser had no interest in bloodshed”.

        This was not a defensive war, it was an attack by israel. Yet Wikipedia frames it as brave Zionists “defending themselves” into Egypt.