Regardless of your standing with regards to the Israel-Palestine war, this is an unexpected development as now legacy networks are finally paying serious attention to criticisms of Wikipedia after years of neglect.

Any observers who’ve been following Wikipedia-related rabbit holes long enough would know that criticism of Wikipedia is for a long time dominated by the political fringes (i.e. far-right) and many Wikipedia critics normally gets ridiculed out of the room as they’re been characterized as “fascists” and “anti-knowledge”. Now it’s like a dream come true for those critics as they seemingly get vindicated on television networks.

  • TheAlbatross
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    1 day ago

    The only anti-Jewish bias I’ve noticed on Wikipedia is that if someone is a Jew, it’ll always be mentioned in the first paragraph of their “Early Life” section.

    This is also partially true for any non-Christian, it seems that Christianity is assumed as a default, but that isn’t applied universally (e.g. this applies to articles about Muslim or Hindi people often, but not always).

    Conflating anti-Zionist (or, more often, factual reporting on Israel) material with antisemitic material is a very dangerous mistake not only for the people horribly affected by the Zionist ideology, but Jews as a whole too.