{"id":238794,"date":"2021-07-17T05:37:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T05:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=238794"},"modified":"2021-07-18T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T08:11:42","slug":"nobody-should-trust-wikipedia-its-co-founder-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=238794","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nobody should trust Wikipedia,&#8217; its co-founder warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Larry Sanger says site has been taken over by left-wing &#8216;volunteers&#8217; who write off sources that don&#8217;t fit their agenda as fake news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Larry Sanger, 52, co-founded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales in 2001\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He said site has been taken over by Democratic-supporting volunteer editors\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sanger said left-leaning editors do not allow Wikipedia users to edit pages\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He mentioned the Wikipedia entry on Joe Biden as example of leftist bias\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biden entry doesn&#8217;t make mention of scandals and Hunter Biden laptop<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Ariel Zilber \u2013 Daily Mail July 16, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Wikipedia can no longer be trusted as a source of unbiased information since the online encyclopedia&#8217;s left-leaning volunteers cut out any news that doesn&#8217;t fit their agenda, according to the site\u2019s co-founder.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Sanger, 52, co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 alongside Jimmy Wales, said the crowdsourcing project has betrayed its original mission by reflecting the views of the \u2018establishment.\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196076\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196076\" class=\"wp-image-196076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade-529x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade-529x1024.jpg 529w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade-155x300.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hunter-and-Joe-Biden-at-Obama-2009-inaugural-parade.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunter and Joe Biden at Obama 2009 inaugural parade. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He said he agreed with the assessment that \u2018teams of Democratic-leaning volunteers\u2019 remove content that isn\u2019t to their liking, including information about scandals linked to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/joe-biden\/index.html\"><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong><\/a> and his son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/hunter-biden\/index.html\"><strong>Hunter Biden<\/strong><\/a>\/<\/p>\n<p>When asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/thepost\/wikipedia-co-founder-i-no-longer-trust-the-website-i-created\/\"><strong>Unherd.com<\/strong><\/a> if Wikipedia can be trusted, he replied: \u2018You can trust it to give a reliably establishment point of view on pretty much everything.<\/p>\n<p>Can you trust it to always give you the truth? Well, it depends on what you think the truth is.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>DailyMail.com has reached out to Wikipedia seeking commen<\/p>\n<p>Sanger cited the entry on Joe Biden, which he says is a sanitized version that doesn\u2019t include arguments from a GOP perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Biden article, if you look at it, has very little by way of the concerns that Republicans have had about him,\u2019 Sanger said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So if you want to have anything remotely resembling the Republican point of view about Biden, you\u2019re not going to get it from the article.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And there is a paragraph &#8211; and it is quite a long article so there should be at least a paragraph &#8211; about the Ukraine scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Very little of that can be found in Wikipedia.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sanger added: \u2018What little can be found is extremely biased and reads like a defense counsel\u2019s brief, really.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Wikipedia passage in question that Sanger cites as biased in favor of Biden reads: \u2018In September 2019, it was reported that Trump had pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate alleged wrongdoing by Biden and his son Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Despite the allegations, as of September 2019, no evidence has been produced of any wrongdoing by the Bidens.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The media widely interpreted this pressure to investigate the Bidens as trying to hurt Biden\u2019s chances of winning the presidency, resulting in a political scandal and Trump\u2019s impeachment by the House of Representatives.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The passage continues: \u2018Beginning in 2019, Trump and his allies falsely accused Biden of getting the Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin fired because he was supposedly pursuing an investigation into Burisma Holdings, which employed Hunter Biden. Biden was accused of withholding $1 billion in aid from Ukraine in this effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In 2015, Biden pressured the Ukrainian parliament to remove Shokin because the United States, the European Union and other international organizations considered Shokin corrupt and ineffective, and in particular because Shokin was not assertively investigating Burisma.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The withholding of the $1 billion in aid was part of this official policy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Sanger noted that the entry on Biden doesn\u2019t include any mention of the fact that Hunter Biden received $600,000 per year to serve on the board of a Ukrainian energy firm, Burisma, from 2014 until 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden was appointed to the board despite not having any experience in the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Joe Biden entry on Wikipedia also makes no mention of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s son forgot his 2017 MacBook Pro laptop at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware in April 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_215549\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hunter-Biden2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215549\" class=\"wp-image-215549 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hunter-Biden2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hunter-Biden2.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hunter-Biden2-212x300.jpeg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The contents of the laptop were released, though the Bidens and other Democrats claimed it was part of a \u2018Russian disinformation campaign.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The contents of the laptop were authenticated by a cyber forensics expert commissioned by DailyMail.com.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop surfaced publicly in October when The New York Post reported on emails that it said had come from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and that it said it received from Rudy Giuliani, Trump\u2019s personal lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook did not allow users to share links to the Post story, prompting accusations that they were engaged in censorship motivated by a pro-Democrat bias.<\/p>\n<p>On October 14, the New York Post ran a front-page story with the headline: BIDEN SECRET EMAILS.<\/p>\n<p>Inside they published a few emails relating to Hunter&#8217;s business dealings in the Ukraine and alleged links to his father. Joe and Hunter Biden have denied any impropriety.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_215708\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tony_bobulinski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215708\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tony_bobulinski.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tony_bobulinski.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tony_bobulinski-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bobulinski<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even when Tony Bobulinski, a former US Navy serviceman and ex-wrestling champion who was Hunter&#8217;s business partner, went on Trump-supporting Fox News to confirm he had emails verifying those on the laptop, the story was largely ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger said that plenty of Republicans use Wikipedia and would be eager to go into articles and make editors to bring a semblance of balance to the stories.<\/p>\n<p>But the site won\u2019t allow it, he claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There are a lot of people who would be highly motivated to go in and make the article more politically neutral but they\u2019re not allowed to,\u2019 Sanger said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s quite remarkable considering that the neutrality policy is still in place.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sanger added: \u2018If only one version of the facts is allowed then that gives a huge incentive to wealthy and powerful people to seize control of things like Wikipedia in order to shore up their power.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And they do that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sanger said that Wikipedia is similar to many media entities in that it \u2018seems to assume&#8230;that there is only one legitimate defensible version of the truth on any controversial question.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Of course, that\u2019s not how Wikipedia used to be.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9793263\/Nobody-trust-Wikipedia-founder-Larry-Sanger-warns.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Sanger says site has been taken over by left-wing &#8216;volunteers&#8217; who write off sources that don&#8217;t fit their agenda as fake news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":190340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238797,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238794\/revisions\/238797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}