https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstos...s-n2606403
"...But recently I learned that Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger now says Wikipedia's political pages have turned into leftist "propaganda."
That's upsetting. Leftists took over the editing?
Sadly, yes. I checked it out....
Leftists just like to write.
Conservatives build things: companies, homes, farms. You see the pattern comparing political donations from different professions:
Surgeons, oil workers, truck drivers, loggers and pilots lean right.
Artists, bartenders, librarians, reporters, and teachers lean left.
Conservatives don't have as much time to tweet or argue on the web. Leftists do. And they love doing it. This helps them take over the media, universities and, now, Wikipedia.
Jonathan Weiss is what Wikipedia calls a "Top 100" Wikipedian because he's made almost half a million edits. He says he's noticed a new bias. "Wikipedia does a great job on things like science and sports, but you see a lot of political bias come into play when you're talking current events.
Weiss is no conservative. In presidential races, he voted for Al Gore, Ralph Nader, and Barack Obama. Never for a Republican. "I've really never identified strongly with either political party," he says.
Maybe that's why he notices the new Wikipedia bias.
"People on the left far outweigh people on the center and the right...a lot (are) openly socialist and Marxist." Some even post pictures of Che Guevara and Lenin on their own profiles.
These are the people who decide which news sources Wikipedia writers may cite. Wikipedia's approved "Reliable sources" page rejects political reporting from Fox but calls CNN and MSNBC "reliable."
Good conservative outlets like The Federalist, The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire are all deemed "unreliable." Same with the New York Post (That's probably why Wikipedia called Hunter Biden's emails a conspiracy theory even after other liberal media finally acknowledged that they were real).
While it excludes Fox, Wikipedia approves even hard-left media like Vox, Slate, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Jacobin, a socialist publication...."