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Mudface@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.612·2 years agoA lot of the political entries are written with a bent towards being sympathetic with leftists.
The Kyle Rittenhouse article spends a lot of time on how Rittenhouse ‘appeared in conservative media’ or ‘appeared with conservative personalities’ which is a pretty weird thing to say, if you don’t already understand the political undertones of the Kenosha riot.
When you click the article for the Kenosha riot, it’s titled ‘civil unrest in Kenosha’ and focusses a lot on what a reader would perceive as positive aims of the riot. Protesting racism and police brutality, and doesn’t focus at all on the crime, danger, guns, vandalism, arson, etc
That article mentions BLM and when you read that article it makes sure to state that BLM protests were ‘largely peaceful’ and totally misses the amount of deaths and destruction that had happened at them.
The BLM article, if written like the Rittenhouse article, should focus a fair amount in the organizations ties to Marxism, the overthrowing of capitalism and colonialism, but doesn’t.
Wikipedia articles are written and edited and maintained to push a narrative.
If you agree with the narrative, you probably like that it does this. If you disagree, you probably don’t bother reading Wikipedia very much.
The issue with sources, is that a lot of ‘sources’ for stuff like this are already heavily curated to paint a picture the editors want to put on front street.
And anything that would combat that narrative is just outright banned from the site.
A lot of citations with politically charged topics are just opinions anyway. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer or sources on the war between Palestine and isreal, for example. But if Wikipedia editors want to push propaganda for either side over the other, all they have to do is only cite pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli sources.
This is easily exploitable by editors for whatever narrative they choose to push.
Wikipedia is not an exhaustive gathering of all relevant information, it is a carefully curated propaganda machine for the editors.
Mudface@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•The NHL bans Pride Tape, setting off a backlash from players and fans12·2 years agodeleted by creator
Mudface@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•The NHL bans Pride Tape, setting off a backlash from players and fans12·2 years agodeleted by creator
Mudface@lemmy.worldto Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Blue checks aren’t protecting sex workers from X’s porn crackdown11·2 years agodeleted by creator
Mudface@lemmy.worldto Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Total Russian Combat Losses - 14.10.2023English7·2 years agoDoes that say Russia has lost 300k people?
Mudface@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."English261·2 years agoHe’s obviously a terrible human being, I think you have to be to be a wildly successful CEO.
But those are the people who are best at running companies. I wouldn’t be good at it, because I’m not a piece of shit
Mudface@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•The NHL bans Pride Tape, setting off a backlash from players and fans12·2 years agodeleted by creator
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Mudface@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."English871·2 years agoThat entirely depends on your expectations of a company CEO
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ATVI/activision-blizzard/stock-price-history
I can’t think of a company that wouldn’t hire someone with this kind of stock performance over 30 years.
The issue is really that consumers just keep spending money on things that they hate.
If they didnt do that, Bobby would have been gone a long long time ago
Mudface@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Hamas threatens execution of Israeli captives if Gaza attacks continueEnglish1·2 years agodeleted by creator
Mudface@lemmy.worldto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with finding pirated movies. Piracy is illegal and unethical 😉English454·2 years agoIt only knows about things people talk about online. I bet it knows how trump likes his bed made, but doesn’t even know what you can do in a library
Mudface@lemmy.worldto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•amazon anti union posters put up by the company71·2 years agoIt’s the company who has to sign off on the CBA, too.
A union can ASK for things, but it’s always the company guaranteeing it.
Mudface@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboardEnglish312·2 years agoThey shouldn’t allow pets in the office anyway
Mudface@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Say goodbye to the COVID-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them16·2 years agoHonestly, you don’t know shit. And I don’t even think you believe the stuff you’re saying.
The only other explanation is that you’re a child, which is probably also true.
Mudface@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Say goodbye to the COVID-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them14·2 years agoAre you like a paid user to shill bullshit? Or are yo undoing it for free?
Mudface@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Say goodbye to the COVID-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them14·2 years agoMy barber, my small town famous bakery and at least one restaurant in town all went out of business.
There is nothing hyperbolic or untruthful about what I said.
I didn’t say that ALL barbers went out of business, or ALL bakeries either.
But mine did. I even posted a link to the stats in Canada for small businesses closing forever due to the governments restrictions.
Grow up
Mudface@lemmy.worldto Xbox@lemmy.world•[Misleading Title] All Dragon Age QA staff who formed union laid offEnglish1613·2 years agoIs it?
These people didn’t work for BioWare, didn’t have a CBA with BioWare, and the company they do have a CBA with says their contract with the client (BioWare) ended.
This is exactly how it’s supposed to happen, except the hysterical media used the word ‘laid off’ instead of ‘completed their contract’
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Whoever said that should step out of their bubble and have a look around once in awhile