On July 25, after a couple of months of debate, the Wikipedia entry “Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza” was changed to “Gaza genocide.” This was done despite the fact that the International Court of Justice in the Hague has not made an official ruling on the matter, in the wake of South Africa’s petition to the court alleging that Israel is committing or facilitating genocide in Gaza.

The Los Angeles-based Jewish Journal, which followed the Wikipedia discussion and vote, wrote that the editors who voted on this change claimed to be relying on an academic consensus based on statements of experts on genocide, human rights, human rights law and Holocaust historians.

  • @Got_Bent
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    1221 month ago

    Next up: a full congressional investigation into Wikipedia

    • @[email protected]OP
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      461 month ago

      Conservapedia will finally reach the mainstream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_forks_of_Wikipedia

      A number of content forks of the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia have been created:

      • Enciclopedia Libre, a 2002 fork of the Spanish Wikipedia created in opposition to perceived plans to add advertising to Wikipedia

      • Conservapedia, a 2006 fork of the English Wikipedia that aims to present a conservative-friendly worldview

      • Qiuwen Baike, a 2023 fork of the Chinese Wikipedia that aims to be compliant with Chinese government policies

      • Ruwiki (Wikipedia fork), a 2023 fork of the Russian Wikipedia that aims to be compliant with Russian government policies

      • @[email protected]
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        961 month ago

        Conservapedia views Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism,[9] falsely claims that abortion increases risk of breast cancer, praises Republicanpoliticians, supports celebrities and artistic works it believes represent moral standards in line with Christian family values, and espouses fundamentalist Christian doctrines such as Young Earth creationism.

        I couldn’t have made it up, WHAT THE FUCK lmao

        • @BreadstickNinja
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          461 month ago

          That site is good for a laugh - a complete alternate universe devoid of science, evidence, or conscious thought.

        • @idiomaddict
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          201 month ago

          falsely claims that abortion increases risk of breast cancer

          Ironically, they were close to a point that might actually support their views. Birth control does increase the risk of breast and cervical cancer. It also lowers ovarian, endometrial, and colon cancer risk, but they’re not presenting complete information either way, so they could just ignore those parts.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 month ago

          Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Macron married a tranny, Obama ‘accompanied by muscular man in wig’. [146]

          Fucking hell. This is the shit they take seriously!

      • @A_Random_Idiot
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        111 month ago

        Conservapedia, a 2006 fork of the English Wikipedia that aims to present a conservative-friendly worldview

        Further evidence that conservatives are snowflake little shitbirds that cant handle reality.