John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY ERIC ZUESSE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“The Extraordinary Political Bias and Corruption Scandal at Wikipedia
“Wikipedia has been caught in a massive information fiddling operation by Craig Murray, one of Britain's most respected journalists. It's a very big deal, and it's going to get a lot bigger.
“Russia Insider is also the victim of endless manipulation of their Wikipedia page at the hands of 'globalists'”
It became clear from reading articles quite a long while ago that the original intent and nature of Wikipedia had changed greatly.
I had never had the complete faith in it some seemed to have, if only under the principle of academic research that you don’t accept a single source as an authority.
But today’s Millennials, great users of really lousy, openly dishonest sources like Facebook, are much more naïve and trusting. After all, these are people, many of whom, from one week to the next, embrace the unproved health merits of one food or supplement after another as they merely read about them. Wikipedia becomes a sufficient authority for them, which is precisely the reason the site is being used heavily today for disinformation.
Like all the other American hi-tech Internet companies - Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. - Wikipedia has been reduced to a servant of American security services.
Today, articles on very timely news topics appear very quickly in what has to be a highly-organized effort.
The articles definitely come with a point of view. They are not true encyclopedia-style articles. Of course, there are still other types of articles on such harmless topics from guitars to space, but in the fields of American policy and foreign affairs and wars and of America’s operations as a political entity, the tilt is unmistakable.
Such articles represent an effort to get a story or point of view "out there."
By the way, it is no different to what CIA used to do with paper magazines years ago – Time, Life, Readers Digest, Newsweek, and many others were riddled with such stuff. Some seeming independent “worthy” publications - eg., Saturday Review - were secretly subsidized and used as an avenue of influence too.
I suppose it was inevitable for the Internet companies. Everything, literally everything in America is coming to be guided by unseen hands. George Orwell could never have imagined a Big Brother like the one who has gradually cast a shadow over everything in the country since 9/11 provided an excuse to break laws and ignore the Constitution and lie constantly.
We even have today that contemporary P.T. Barnum in America, full-time promoter, Elon Musk, talking about getting into an Internet "truth" site, a Pravda, as he called it.
Mr. Musk has no background or known abilities to be considered in any way qualified to judge what is accurate or not in news stories and certainly no qualifications to advise others, but he's doing it nevertheless, of course, trading on his name as an independent maverick type.
But that really is not what he is. He is a high-flying self-promoter whose companies, all interesting enough ideas, only exist because of subsidies. None of them would be viable as a stand-alone private company.
Even his most interesting project, the reusable rocket, has received billions in subsidies and covert assistance from NASA and the Pentagon. The thing would never have flown without it.
So, is he "connected"? You bet he is. Just like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and I'm sure we can add Wikipedia.
