Sharyl Attkisson is an Emmy award winning investigative journalist. She is the author of Stonewalled, which addresses the unseen influences of corporations and special interests on the information and images the public receives every day in the news and elsewhere.
On April 17, 2016 she did a special episode of Full Measure on the "Dark Side of Wikipedia."
"Right now, this very second, people are busily editing away on the website Wikipedia, at a rate of more than ten edits per second. There are over five million articles written in English on Wikipedia, with a thousand being added every day."
"But there’s a dark side to Wikipedia you probably don’t know about. The promise of accurate, neutral articles and privacy for contributors is often just a mirage, according to two insiders. They say they’ve been left battle-scarred after troubling personal encounters with the world’s most popular encyclopedia."
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QUOTES FROM THE VIDEO:
In a given day, Wikipedia administrators are blocking about 1,000 IP addresses
Special Interests control information
Wikipedia is often edited by people who have an agenda
The ruling authorities are the volunteer editors who have reached the most powerful editing status, known only by their usernames. They ALWAYS WIN the Edit Wars.
You have different people with a particular scientific point-of-view and they'll edit and modify Wikipedia so that its articles reflect that point of view.
Two trusted Wikipedia officials were exposed running business that covertly edited Wikipedia for PR clients.
Interests for Sony, the CIA, Barack Obama, and John MacCain all reportedly have been caught secretly editing their own Wikipedia page to their own advantage.
Anonymous Wikipedia Editors maintain a stranglehold on selected topics.
Gregory Kohs of Wikipediocracy.com demonstrates with a case of Morgellon's Disease. The Mayo Clinic calls it an unexplained skin disorder characterized by sores.
Yet Wikipedia page dismisses Morgellon's as a Delusional Belief.
So Kohs added a Research Footnote with a link to this study abstract.
In 38 minutes, that edit disappears. If you know where to look, you can see a list of topics that the same Editor worked hard to control. Some of them included vaccine controversy, thiomersal, aspartame and homeopathy.
This administrator is seemingly involved with the medical or pharmaceutical profession, with an agenda to discredit or suppress alternative medicines.
This Investigative Report is just another reminder that the "FAKE NEWS" is more likely to be the "Mainstream News" rather than the Alternative Media.
So is Wikipedia really where you would want to go to find the truth behind today's controversial topics, like PizzaGate?
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In 38 minutes, that edit disappears. If you know where to look, you can see a list of topics that the same Editor worked hard to control. Some of them included vaccine controversy, thiomersal, aspartame and homeopathy.
This administrator is seemingly involved with the medical or pharmaceutical profession, with an agenda to discredit or suppress alternative medicines.
This Investigative Report is just another reminder that the "FAKE NEWS" is more likely to be the "Mainstream News" rather than the Alternative Media.
So is Wikipedia really where you would want to go to find the truth behind today's controversial topics, like PizzaGate?
.
For more information, visit: http://wikipediocracy.com
For More Stories Like This One, Visit My Blog And Follow Me: @canadian-coconut
Please Comment Below and Let's Have a Productive Conversation!
This administrator is seemingly involved with the medical or pharmaceutical profession, with an agenda to discredit or suppress alternative medicines.
This Investigative Report is just another reminder that the "FAKE NEWS" is more likely to be the "Mainstream News" rather than the Alternative Media.
So is Wikipedia really where you would want to go to find the truth behind today's controversial topics, like PizzaGate?
.
For more information, visit: http://wikipediocracy.com
For More Stories Like This One, Visit My Blog And Follow Me: @canadian-coconut
Please Comment Below and Let's Have a Productive Conversation!
This Investigative Report is just another reminder that the "FAKE NEWS" is more likely to be the "Mainstream News" rather than the Alternative Media.
So is Wikipedia really where you would want to go to find the truth behind today's controversial topics, like PizzaGate?
.
Wikipedia is an excellent source of FAKE NEWS!
Thanks for the update. Great timing! This is not new to me. I have been avoiding wikipedia for a while now especially on all material that is not completely neutral. The edit wars have not improve I see. So, given the reports about WikiMedia, I'll do my part to not support this harassment.
I was tipped off about a year ago when I watched this TED talk: Astroturf and manipulation of media messages | Sharyl Attkisson | TEDxUniversityofNevada. Your video and post goes way beyond. Looks like they must be dependant on the money now. Their business model is probably not going to change.
I'm guessing that what has happened is that many "volunteer" editors are being paid by pharmaceutical interests and other powerful interests, to spend their whole day editing on Wikipedia so that they eventually worked their way to the top of the administrators where they can then veto any other volunteer editors with less influence.
there should be a steemopedia! No special privileges only reputations and flags to smack these bastids faces. Full transparency!
There is a Wikipedia alternative in development called InfoGalactic. Vox Day is behind it.
Based on Steem or Graphene?
I think a system for monetising it would be so easy to implement (did this article help you?)... Editors compete for votes on articles and edits, flags and reps and, the data is there, a versioning interface. No more Fakipedia!
And including anything... Programming tutorials, language definitions, dictionaries, anything of educational value. Maybe language subchains and a mechanism for paying translators to synchronise languages...
No, InfoGalactic isn't monetized.
I will keep my eye on that. Thanks!
That's a great idea for the future!
Ya know...i always wondered. This is great!
Thanks for this article! In general you should be carful with every information you get regardless where it comes from. The real truth is always behind the information. Lets be careful and open minded.
Upvoted and resteemed.
Very true. And you are welcome!
Great Article! Thank you! May I reuse that "Follow" Button?
Yes, go ahead.
I agree wikipedia is mainly edited by people who have an agenda neutrality is for name sake.
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Maybe it is the risk of information come from open source.
There are many malicious people in the world!
thank you!
I have heard that there is a feminist bounty for adding feminist viewpoints to wikipedia. And I have seen evidence of the modifications. I do not know if the bounty is real.
@canadian-coconut, i hate that i always use it, but its right there and so easy. Thank you for the post.
It's hard not to use it as it comes up first in search engines. It's probably okay for non-controversial topics .. but we must use some caution.
That's a good rule of thumb. If the subject is politically below-the-radar, you'll likely get good info. But if it's politically relevant....
Well, here's a recent example:
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u got that right lol
Great article, logical, and a good example...
Thank-you very much, inphiknit. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
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