Because people are becoming increasingly polarized, and more strongly hold on to their views with very little to no chance to consider they’re wrong or are being lied to. Half of wikipedia is written by “them”, and we cant’t be sure if the other half is “ours” or is some corpo shill. Ours is the post-truth century, and Wikipedia the carefuly curated repository of human knowledge no longer fits us.
You know you can go through the logs and see all the changes made to a wiki article and they list all of their sources so you can check for yourself, right?
Because people are becoming increasingly polarized, and more strongly hold on to their views with very little to no chance to consider they’re wrong or are being lied to. Half of wikipedia is written by “them”, and we cant’t be sure if the other half is “ours” or is some corpo shill. Ours is the post-truth century, and Wikipedia the carefuly curated repository of human knowledge no longer fits us.
You know you can go through the logs and see all the changes made to a wiki article and they list all of their sources so you can check for yourself, right?
Right!