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Wikipedia Editors Want to Label Babylon Bee ‘Right Wing Disinfo’
TechWatch
February 18th, 2021 3:19 PM
Satire is not meant to be taken seriously. Yet Big Tech and its tools find a way to label any humor coming from the right as disinformation or fake news. The Babylon Bee has been repeatedly victimized by this tug of war.
Race War: Wikipedia Editors Battle Over Kamala Harris’ Ethnic Identity
TechWatch
August 12th, 2020 12:55 PM
Big Tech companies like Facebook, YouTube, Google, and Twitter treat Wikipedia as the source of truth, particularly when it comes to censoring conservatives. But even Wikipedia can’t figure out the truth related to Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) and her race and ethnicity.
Soros-Funded Wikipedia Warns Editors Against Citing Fox News as Source
TechWatch
July 24th, 2020 2:08 PM
Don’t doubt that Wikipedia is liberal. Fierce debate erupted among Wikipedia moderators about whether Fox News could even be used as a credible source in Wikipedia entries. It ended by being a source that could only be used with proper warnings in place. Wikipedia labels itself as the internet’s encyclopedia. Like so many other internet institutions, it seems to have been co-opted by left…
DISGUSTING: Wikipedia Waged Years-Long War Against Mark Levin
TechWatch
July 14th, 2020 5:35 PM
A former Wikipedia editor blasted Wikipedia for not being neutral, and slammed the platform for a multi-year scorched-earth campaign against popular conservative talk radio host Mark Levin. A massive exposé accusing Wikipedia of having biased editors was put out by Breitbart…
Wikipedia Founder: Wikipedia Has Abandoned ‘Neutrality’ as a Policy
TechWatch
May 19th, 2020 8:31 AM
The founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has some harsh words for his old platform, which he said has changed from what he wanted it to be. “Wikipedia no longer has an effective neutrality policy,” he wrote in his blog on May 14. “Wikipedia no longer has an effective neutrality policy,” he wrote in his blog on May 14. He used as an example the difference between the…
Wikipedia Debates Changing ‘Spanish Flu’ Name with PC Naming Fight
TechWatch
March 20th, 2020 2:38 PM
Wikipedia contributors have waged a fierce debate over whether they should change the name of diseases to be more PC as the virus from Wuhan, China reaches across the world. Wikipedia is debating whether history itself needs to be changed to fit modern PC standards. The proposal “that Spanish flu be renamed and moved to 1918 influenza pandemic” has divided Wikipedia’s…
Wikipedia Founder Launches Social Media Site to Fight ‘Fake News’
TechWatch
November 14th, 2019 1:33 PM
The founder of the liberal crowdsourced information platform Wikipedia, which received $2 million from liberal billionaire George Soros, is launching a social media site to rival Facebook and Twitter. Jimmy Wales said in a tweet that WT:Social is a response to the “fake news and low quality content” that can be found on Facebook and Twitter.
Hacked Wikipedia Page Smears PragerU With Vulgar Description
TechWatch
September 10th, 2019 1:33 PM
Big Tech companies like Facebook and YouTube would like users to believe Wikipedia is the ultimate objective source of information. But a recent hack proves that contention false. On conservative organization PragerU’s Wikipedia page, the logo was changed to a more vulgar claim.
Facebook Uses Wikipedia to Call Conservative News ‘Harmful’ ‘Lies’
TechWatch
April 25th, 2019 11:44 AM
Facebook is subtly trying to discredit conservative media as “conspiracy theories” and it’s using Wikipedia to do it. The company’s latest policy update, “Expanding Our Fact-Checking Program,” included new details on how the platform planned to combat “misinformation.”
Reliable Source? Wikipedia Swaps Trump's Picture to Vulgar Photo
TechWatch
December 4th, 2018 2:44 PM
Wikipedia is considered by many in the media to be “the Internet’s greatest store of knowledge.” But what happens when that knowledge is compromised?
Google Considers Removing Controversial Knowledge Panel
TechWatch
November 29th, 2018 2:14 PM
With concerns about tech bias dominating the news cycle, Google wants to remove its information panel from search engine results. The Knowledge Panel, generated primarily by crowd-sourced information website Wikipedia, is often the first thing users see when searching a topic such as a celebrity, historical figure, or political party.
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MRC's Bozell: Tech Giant Censorship Is Worst in The 'History of Man'
April 17th, 2018 12:05 AM
In a Monday appearance on Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell ripped into the liberal tech giants for censoring conservative thought on their social media platforms. “This is emerging, the greatest censorship of free speech worldwide in the history of man,” he exclaimed, referring to the findings of the blockbuster study conducted…
CNN’s Byers Laments ‘Drain of Talent’ With Harassers Leaving Media
November 21st, 2017 11:41 PM
On Tuesday night, Twitter’s new 280-character limit appeared to have claimed its first victim. In an unbelievable and now deleted tweet, CNN media reporter Dylan Byers openly lamented how much “talent” the media and the entertainment industries was losing because of the flood of sexual harassment allegations. As expected, the reaction was swift and fierce and garnered literally…
NY Times CEO: Social Media Should Subsidize 'Real Journalism'
December 15th, 2016 7:40 PM
The day after Election Day, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner met with President Barack Obama. The primary takeaway from that interview, published in late November, was, as Tim Graham at NewsBusters noted, how Obama partly blamed Hillary Clinton's election loss to Donald Trump on “Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country.” Additionally, Wenner, in what…
