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07/18/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Lawmaker: Google should be liable for false information found in Wikipedia text boxes presented alongside search results

In an effort to combat “fake news,” search engine giant Google, as well as its subsidiary YouTube, is revamping its website platform to include small “truth” boxes that contain information pulled from Wikipedia – the presumption being that Wikipedia is an accurate fact-checking source. But it certainly isn’t, and at least one legislator is raising […]

04/08/2018 / By JD Heyes

Wikipedia is “warning” Facebook readers about Breitbart News stories but it’s Wikipedia that has the REAL credibility problem

In recent days Breitbart News reported that all of its stories posted on Facebook now come with a button that says “About this article” that, when clicked, carries a ‘warning’ from the online ‘encyclopedia’ site Wikipedia. “Facebook is displaying a link to Wikipedia’s smear-job description of Breitbart News next to all Breitbart articles shared on […]

04/06/2018 / By JD Heyes

Facebook is now smearing Breitbart News with biased Wikipedia pop-ups labeling their news “intentionally misleading”

It’s becoming clearer to me that the divide between the Marxist Left and liberty-and-freedom-minded Americans is becoming far too wide to breach and in fact may already be at the point of no return. I’ll explain. When our founders adopted a provision of the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of the press they did so, in […]

03/10/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Wikipedia has become a dangerous platform for medical disinformation and propaganda

While Wikipedia may seem like a useful site if you need quick information at hand for trivial topics like the average population of Kazakhstan, its reliability and validity have long been questioned by professors, intellectuals and even the media. One reason for this distrust is the fact that quite a bit of the information on […]

02/15/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Liberal loyalist Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable source’

The world’s most laughably inaccurate and untrustworthy information website says it’s taking a stand against so-called “fake news” by banning one of Great Britain’s most well-known media publications from its list of approved citations. Reports indicate that the online “free encyclopedia” Wikipedia, which is widely known to publish biased and fake information about all sorts […]

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