Wikipedia may have begun life as an open-source utopia of free knowledge, but it has devolved into a repressive oligarchy run by unaccountable petty tyrants. It is a punitive system that targets those who refuse to toe the line. Anyone who represents a threat to the establishment can become a victim, and once an ideologically-motivated cabal of editors sinks its teeth into your article, there is no way to remove them.

Edit: apparently the author went full QAnon in 2020. This article is from 2018 and is reasonably well-researched, though it downplays the participation of the USA agencies and corporations in the astroturfing campaigns, but I needed to put forward this disclaimer regarding all her other content.

  • albiguOP
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    7 months ago

    It’s certainly not a bit, but I got the article on mastodon and didn’t think to check who the author was. Apparently she’s part of the batch of political commentators who went Qanon-mad as soon as the pandemic hit.

    I still think the Wikipedia article is alright, specially since it’s very exhaustive. There’s still some “foreign dictatorships” scare there that makes a lot of sense in retrospect though.

    At least she stopped posting eventually (?)