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The campaign seems almost comically inept. There are valid criticisms of wikipedia to be made, but the idea that it's full of left-wing propaganda is just so ridiculous that it's hard to imagine anyone taking it seriously. But then I felt the same way about a certain politician's recent election campaign. I guess it's the good old "big lie" tactic in action.
While I generally agree (obviously), the critics are technically correct that there is a problem of (lacking) viewpoint diversity among WP editors. Which has led to some unfortunate cases which are easy to point to. For example, the dismissal of the lab-leak hypothesis as "conspiracism" during Covid. Or, very recently, the coverage of what's going on in Gaza, and specifically the casual use of the G-word. That coverage is blatantly written from a biased perspective, as the WP founder himself has been (very rare event) complaining about. He understands that credibility is everything. It's not enough to be "right", you have to be trusted. Sometimes that means phrasing things in a more neutral way so as to accommodate good-faith objections. I really worry about this because it feels like many people do not understand it, or want to understand it.
How is the gaza genocide article not neutral? It reads the same as other genocide articles like the Rohingya genocide.
Stating objective facts that all of us have seen in the news isn't biased.
If right wing dipshits get offended by objective truth, that's their problem. Not the rest of ours.