There's a group of people who purposely go to Wikipedia to add junk to it. Random pages, probably avoiding most political ones to go undetected. Their idea is to make it so difficult to tell fact from fiction on any of the Wiki pages that the site becomes un-useable to the average-day person.
It’s also a strategy to encourage the blurring of fact and fiction and dent the moral imperative of truth telling. People are more easily swayed by propaganda if they believe everyone is always lying equally.
Of course not. The pages concerning maths, physics, chemistry etc.. are fine. Perfectly reasonable place to get an overview in those kind of subjects. It’s a place to begin research not to finish it.
They should call the new one REEpedia........
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Am I a joke to you?
There's a group of people who purposely go to Wikipedia to add junk to it. Random pages, probably avoiding most political ones to go undetected. Their idea is to make it so difficult to tell fact from fiction on any of the Wiki pages that the site becomes un-useable to the average-day person.
It’s also a strategy to encourage the blurring of fact and fiction and dent the moral imperative of truth telling. People are more easily swayed by propaganda if they believe everyone is always lying equally.
Indeed, there could be unintended consequences.
Most colleges will not accept Wikipedia as a source for an assignment.
Of course not. The pages concerning maths, physics, chemistry etc.. are fine. Perfectly reasonable place to get an overview in those kind of subjects. It’s a place to begin research not to finish it.
But they will pay for speakers to who talk about how all whites are bad.
I know high school kids who would change and add stuff just for laughs. It is a propaganda tool. This new site sounds like a fantastic idea.