Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger accused the CIA and corporate actors of editing the online encyclopedia to serve state and institutional interests during an interview with the German daily Berliner Zeitung published on 7 August.
“I believe Wikipedia is already compromised,” Sanger said.
He added that the platform was identified early as a propaganda instrument, and that its anonymity rule made it easy to use as such.
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“The powerful are very interested in Wikipedia,” he said, describing the site’s pseudonyms as a mask, saying that the platform treats the positions of institutions such as the World Economic Forum and the World Bank as established fact.
I said it already in the crossposted thread, but I’m starting to feel like the rash of negative articles about Wikipedia recently seems like a coordinated smear campaign.
Larry Sanger isn’t wrong that “the powerful are very interested in Wikipedia,” but that’s because they fucking hate it and want to see it destroyed in favor of shit like grokipedia that they have control over. As for the rest of the article, I think it itself is the disinformation.