MAGA Melts Down Over Wikipedia ‘Blacklist’
Wikipedia’s founding partner triggered the anger of the MAGA by calling the site’s news sources of “blacklist”.
“Black Listed Sources Breitbart, Daily Caller, Epoch Times, Fox News, New York Post, The Federalist, so you can’t use them as a source in Wikipedia” Larry Sanger said Tucker Carlson episode on Monday Tucker Carlson show.
Now the site’s critic Wikipedia’s founding partner, Carlson’s Wikipedia’s “Trusted Resources/Perkeeper Resources” page has announced the surprise. summarizing The reliability of the quoted resources.
Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia and has long been a critic of the site. / Ullstein Bild / ULLİ Winkler / Ullstein Bild Getty Images
“Why doesn’t anyone talk about it?” In Podcast of Monday, Carlson asked Sanger to answer, “Shame on the left, so the left will not report.”
“This wikipedia is wild from the founding partner” writtenSharing a clip from Carlson’s podcast, Sanger, along with a “automatically approved” list, along with the list of prohibited resources: “Nyt, Washpo, CNN, Glaad, Edl”.
However, when checking the approved list, Wikipedia’s treatment of other outputs is more complex. Only those mentioned by Sanger Breitbart News Officially “Black List”, with automatically blocked arrangements. New York Post And Federalist It is marked as “suspicious” sources and while allowing in limited situations Daily seeker And Age times They are marked as ılmış removed from use ve and are considered to be “usually unreliable ,, but they can be quoted for“ undisputed self -definitions ..
Wikipedia seems undecided about Fox News, while the general news scope as “marginalized reliable”, seeing politics, science and speaking shows as “usually unreliable ..
Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, “Wikipedia brazen propaganda” written In response to the clip of Podcast on Monday. American conservative activist Tom Fitton, named The site “A Smear Machine for the Sol”.
Elon Musk, Wikipedia’s long -term critic, said “According to Wikipedia, there will be a big development”.
Elon Musk promised to do it on his own
Sanger in response to Musk published“I hope that Grok will not be as prejudiced as he himself”, referring to the AI Chatbot debate of technology billionaire, some answers in the beginning of this year local Antisemitic and racist content. “
Musk didn’t talk about Wikipedia for the first time. He in 2023 swore If he changes his name to “D-Kipedia ,, gives a billion dollars and then calls it to be corrupted After claiming that he once made a gesture of his own Wikipedia page, “Compared to a Nazi greetings” action Musk made President Donald Trump at the opening of January.
Jimmy Wales, other founding partner of Wikipedia, said, orum I think Elon is not satisfied that Wikipedia is not for sale. written Then in response to Musk.
Unlike Sanger, Wales defended Wikipedia as a “awakening” site. “We have a very long tradition, you know, we respect freedom of expression” said Telegram In 2023.
Following Sanger’s appearance Tucker Carlson show, Even the son of the president focused on criticism, sending: “Wikipedia scribbles conservatives regularly with lies and stains, so that explains a lot.”
“Wikipedia desperately prejudiced. A left -wing activist army protects the BIOS and fights reasonable corrections, Dav Technology entrepreneur David Sacks written“We enlarge the problem, Wikipedia is usually seen in Google search results and is now a reliable resource for AI model training. This is a huge problem.”
Wikimedia Foundation – a non -profit organization that hosts Wikipedia – Earlier remarkable He “so far, every llm [Large Language Model] It was trained on Wikipedia content and almost always the largest training data source on data sets. “
Wikipedia describes the source list as “a comprehensive non -comprehensive resource list of reliability and use in Wikipedia ,, that is, the consensus in the reliability of a resource may change and the list updates.
Daily Beast reached the Wikimedia Foundation for a comment on how to make decisions about reliability.
