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<\/a><\/p>\nSharyl Attkisson is one of the top journalists operating in America today. She has fearlessly investigated the \u201cvaccine deep state\u201d and was fired from the corporate-run media for daring to report truths about vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n Her latest investigation takes an in-depth look at Wikipedia, the \u201cfree encyclopedia\u201d that has been overtaken by bad actors and special interests (such as the GMO industry, vaccine industry, Big Pharma, etc.). \u201cIt\u2019s become a vehicle for special interests to control information,\u201d Attkisson writes. \u201cAgenda editors are able to prevent or revert edits and sourcing on selected issues and people in order to control the narrative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n So why does Google, DuckDuckGo and every other search engine (including Facebook) rely on Wikipedia to provide information on millions of topics? Because Google, in particular, knows that Wikipedia is controlled by bad actors who push \u201cofficial\u201d narratives<\/strong> on everything from vaccines to chemtrails.<\/span><\/p>\n Attkisson recently published a must-read story that exposes how Wikipedia has collapsed into a disinformation \/ propaganda hub run by corporate interests<\/strong>. Her full story, reprinted below, is found at SharylAttkisson.com<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Sharyl is also the host of a highly-recommended broadcast journalism show called Full Measure<\/em>, carried by the Sinclair network.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve done quite a bit of\u00a0reporting<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0about how Wikipedia is definitely not \u201cthe encyclopedia anyone can edit.\u201d It\u2019s become a vehicle for special interests to control information. Agenda editors are able to prevent or revert edits and sourcing on selected issues and people in order to control the narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n My own battle with Wikipedia included being unable to correct provably false facts such as incorrect job history, incorrect birth place and incorrect birth date.<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s worse is that agenda editors related to pharmaceutical interests and the partisan blog Media Matters control my Wikipedia biographical page, making sure that slanted or false information stays on it. For example, they falsely refer to my reporting as \u201canti-vaccine,\u201d and imply my reporting on the topic has been discredited. In fact, my vaccine and medical reporting has been recognized by top national journalism awards organizations, and has even been cited as a source in a peer reviewed scientific publication. However, anyone who tries to edit this factual context and footnotes onto my page finds it is quickly removed.<\/span><\/p>\n What persists on my page, however, are sources that are supposedly disallowed by Wikipedia\u2019s policies. They include citations by Media Matters, with no disclosure that it\u2019s a partisan blog.<\/span><\/p>\n Another entity quoted on my Wikipedia biographical page to disparage my work is the vaccine industry\u2019s Dr. Paul Offit. But there\u2019s no mention of the\u00a0lawsuits<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0filed against Offit for libel (one prompted him to apologize and correct his book), or the fact that he provided false information about his work and my reporting to the Orange County Register, which later\u00a0corrected its article<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Obviously, these facts would normally make Offit an unreliable source, but for Wikipedia, he\u2019s presented as if an unconflicted expert. In fact, Wikipedia doesn\u2019t even mention that\u2019s Offit is a vaccine industry insider who\u2019s made millions of dollars off of vaccines.<\/span><\/p>\n Meantime, turn to Dr. Offit\u2019s own Wikipedia biography and\u2013 at last look\u2013 it also omitted all mention of his countless controversies. Instead, it\u2019s written like a promotional resume\u2013 in violation of Wikipedia\u2019s supposed politics on neutrality.<\/span><\/p>\n These biographies are just two examples of ones that blatantly violate Wikipedia\u2019s strict rules, yet they are set in stone. The powerful interests that \u201cwatch\u201d and control the pages make sure Offit\u2019s background is whitewashed and that mine is subtly tarnished. They will revert or change any edits that attempt to correct the record.<\/span><\/p>\n This, in a nutshell, exemplifies Wikipedia\u2019s problems across the platform as described by its cofounder Larry Sanger.<\/span><\/p>\n Sanger recently spoke to\u00a0150Sec.\u00a0<\/em>The following is an excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n Reading a Wikipedia entry about Wikipedia itself seems strange. But where else on the web would an average internet user go for digestible, encyclopedia-style content?<\/span><\/p>\n With its entries almost always topping Google search results, Wikipedia receives around 33 billion page views per month, according to\u00a0studies\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a>carried out by thinktank Pew Research in 2016. In line with\u00a0statistics<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>from the website itself, it also changes at a rate of\u00a01.8 edits per second and the number of new articles per day averages 578.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch \u201cWikipedia: The Dark Side,\u201d a Full Measure investigation<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n The multilingual free online encyclopedia was established in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, originally under the name of Nupedia. It is now the\u00a0fifth most popular website<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cWikipedia is\u2026broken,\u201d controlled by special interests and bad actors, says co-founder<\/h1>\n
by Sharyl Attkisson, via SharylAttkisson.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n