Wikipedia co-founder: I no longer trust the website I created [video]
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I don't think writing something angry about a politician or public persona is a too great offense, good that people are interested at least and the community often did a great job of cleaning that up when feelings cooled down.
But the propaganda wars in recent times are on a whole other level, especially since there are PR firms that found out about the prevalence of Wikipedia in peoples lives.
The articles about ant-eaters are still extremely awesome. Math is surprisingly stringent in what is regarded as relevant for an article, you don't find too much context. There are some advantages to that though.
A recent narrative that has been pushed to people is that "truth is relative", leading to today's landscape.
Can't we use data to make people think and reach a common truth? We can't entirely get rid of manipulators, but it is less likely if the scientific method is properly applied.
Ultimately it comes to the integrity of the society backing the information, which is deteriorating, resulting in a feedback loop.
https://m-g-h.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22
https://m-g-h.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a577eba4f3e
Covid became a very partisan issue across the world, despite the numbers being clear. So have climate change, incarceration versus rehabilitation, drug legalisation versus prohibition, increasing minimum wages, single-payer healthcare systems, quantitative easing or austerity. It doesn't seem to me the data was ever the problem. Are you arguing basic scientific literacy is?