Aligning Text to the Right: Is a Political Organization Editing Wikipedia to Suit Its Interests?
An employee of NGO Monitor was recently banned from editing articles about the Israeli-Arab conflict for bias and not revealing his place of work.
In the 12 years since its founding, the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become one of the most important and influential sources of information on and off the Internet. It has also become a battleground for all conceivable topics, from commercial companies to, of course, the Arab–Israeli conflict.
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Proud Jew
19:17 02.01.2018Wikipedia has a very strong anti-Semitic, pro-Muslim bias. It is pretty
much dominated by far-left Europeans.
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SoCal Mother
10:44 31.12.2017My son's professor at a major US university took 5 grade points off of a
term paper for quoting Wikipedia. He had only used it to define a
totally non-controversial technical term. I gained a new respect for
his professor.
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Henry Tobias
10:43 31.12.2017Everyone has an agenda. Wikipedia is not a reliable source of reference
for most research, let alone political conflict anywhere in the world.
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Lester
10:33 31.12.2017to fool the world.
