I see a lot of posts lately, mainly in ‘world news’ communities, that when I investigate their source, I cannot come to any other conclostion that purposefully spreading of fake news and propaganda on lemmy.

I love this platform and want to see it thrive, but the fact that these kind of posts can so easily populate my feed is disturbing.

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    1 year ago

    Bias on Wikipedia is very bad now. One of the co-founders of Wikipedia has declared it “propaganda.” It doesn’t get more damning than that. Indeed, I’ve been involved in certain pages which have been butchered beyond recognition over the years thanks to power capture in the mod hierarchy. You wouldn’t BELIEVE how bad it is on many pages. Anything which is even vaguely contentious is guaranteed to be ideologically captured.

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      1 year ago

      You mean that co-founder Larry Sanger that is full on Trump supporter and believer of conspiracy theories that claims Wikipedia has a leftist bias?

      That guy that claimed there are “multiple versions of facts”?

      Yeah, he isn’t a great source, I can tell you that.