Well you’re free to submit sources that are credible and challenge that old ones aren’t.
A lot of western liberals really do treat it like the Holy Scripture. Any intelligence agencies would just have to pay a few admins and higher some people to sculpt the list of “reliable sources” that Wikipedia uses and they can basically fully control what hundreds of millions of neoliberals believe.
And they have.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I tried that once, a bunch of power users got together and tried to dox me
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Bullshit.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Lol. Reality isn’t what you wanted it to be, so you’re just going to deny it.
arararagi@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I’m not using the conservative pedia.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You’re just salty that the russian and chinese propaganda edits are thrown out as soon as they pop up lol
nyctre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s very easy to just spit out rote strawman that don’t resemble anything I actually said, rather than actually engage with what I said.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
See? You’ve just straight up given up the game, immediately disregarding any pretense that you ever cared about reliable sources or honestly, and just straight up admit that it’s only about politics alliegence. You will believe anything Wikipedia tells you, even if it openly comes from western propaganda outlets like the Victims of Communism Foundation or Radio Free Asia, because they agree with your politics.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yessir, i do believe that the information on Wikipedia resembles the truth a lot more than anything that comes from lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml or hexbear.net. And you know why? Because Wikipedia gives me sources i can read up and decide myself if that’s bullshit or not, and those sources are not some bizarre substack ramblings or youtube videos with 150 views. And also because Wikipedia leaves politics aside as good as they can - if your perception of reality has anything to with what the world at large has agreed on, but there i lost ya, didn’t i?
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yes, I do: because it confirms the things you already believed
And do you? Do you read all those books from Anne Applebaum and similar right wing pundits? Do you read all the reports from far right think tanks like Australian Strategic Policy Institute? Do you read claims of not just the publications, but the save individual people, who have consistently repeated every verified lie to come out of the US state department, from WMDS in Iraq to babies in ovens in Gaza? How exactly are you “deciding for yourself” if that’s bullshit?
They really don’t. Not that it’s even possible to “leave politics aside” when talking about things that are political. Thinking they do is basically admition that you consider your politics “the default”.
You really want to commit the argument “it’s true because it agrees with the average political position of westerners?” (because by “the world at large”, you, naturally, where only talking about westerners.)