| ▲ | jmyeet 3 hours ago | |
My suspicion here is that there are deeper issues for which union-busting is a symptom and not the main issue. There's a battle to control what information gets recorded and distributed, an effort to silence anything that contradicts US foreign policy, basically. Wikimedia Foundation CEO Bernadette Meehan has very much a Beltway insider, working for the the US foreign service, the Obama administration (NSC), the Obama foundation and the Biden administration (Ambassador to Chile). Personally, I deeply distrust anyone having a lot of influence over what is essentially the world's actively recorded history book. There's history here too, specifically the 2016 secret project to essentially label infomration on the Internet as "reliable" [1]. It became controversial because it violated the Foundation's transparency rules so there's cause for concern over transparency. We're all familiar I'm sure with some of the lamest edit wars [2]. But this stuff matters. STates actively interfere with Wikipedia to whitewash or outright falsiy the record or reputation of states or people. Not Wikipedia, but the Turkish government fairly famously was caught manipulating Google search results to surface propaganda as the first link on the Aremanian genocide [3]. Wikipedia has been the target of these influence campaigns too eg [4][5]. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35668352 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars [3]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-google-searches-are-prom... [4]: https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?... [5]: https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-i... | ||
| ▲ | bawolff 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> There's a battle to control what information gets recorded and distributed, an effort to silence anything that contradicts US foreign policy, basically. The Wikimedia foundation does not exercise editorial control over Wikipedia. Neither the people fired nor the people doing the firing have any control over article contents. | ||
| ▲ | keybored 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Wikipedia has been the target of these influence campaigns too eg [4][5]. You need a Wasserman Schultz link just talking about [5] as well? | ||