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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

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They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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Wikipedia has a claimed positive-bias, in which negative things are often left out of the article. This is more true the lower profile the page is.

And Wikipedia has an overall left-bias, because of the demographic of contributors.

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