Re: [OT] Wikipedia is going far left

On 5/22/2025 2:33 AM, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-05-21 22:36:40 +0000, moviePig said:

On 5/21/2025 5:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 21, 2025 at 2:07:38 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
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So says Leo Kearse, who offers both evidence and his usual humour in
this video:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zu0PVaBj7Q [19 minutes]

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The most amazing one is Wikipedia's claim that there were no mass killings
under communism. I guess Stalin's purges and Mao's Great Leap Forward and Pol Pot's killing fields were all just figments of our imagination.
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Communism: Where you always seem to be just one execution away from utopia.

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Whether Wiki, AI, or the Washington Post, "facts" are always authored.

 The problem is that:
   - Wikipedia can easily be edited by anyone, with zero actual
    fact checking by anyone in authority. (Same with IMDB.)
   - AI is utterly useless crap that makes LOTS and LOTS of mistakes.
 Neither can ever be trusted as a reliable source of useful information.

But I'm hard pressed to think of *any* absolutely reliable source of information.  And, of the usually cited purveyors, Wikipedia stands out as making no bones about its open-season provenance.  (Personally, I've found it to be a worthy starting point, especially for obscure topics.)