https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedi...
This comment seems to get some hate, but all you have to do is skim over the linked Wikipedia article to verify what I'm saying.
#/bin/env bash
read -p "Please enter your personal bias (e.g. conservative, liberal, progressive, etc.) philisophy: " bias
echo "they are either ${bias}ly biased or with an agenda, divorced from reality."Edit: feel free to defend the Conservapedia's take on climate change for example https://www.conservapedia.com/Climate_change. Absolutely laughable bullshit.
As a point of reference, if you search high traffic websites with "Left bias" and also with "Right bias"[0], it will turn out that the average factuality of the sources are higher on the "Left bias" news sources.
This makes me think that the point of reference, the "center", is now off-center, to the right. To the point where actual reality seems "left". "Facts Have a Well-Known Liberal Bias". Considering this, sources even further to the right will of course have worse information, same as they would on the far left. And this is for news sources - what I added was that I observed the same for wikis.
[0] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/filtered-search/?bias=Left&tr...
Since the first article hit the site which clearly showed off the personal bias of the author. Then since the first article was edited by a group of like-minded editors who approved of each others edits but were vigilant in keeping other opinions off the page. These groups of editors come in different flavours ranging from ideologically driven [1] - these control the narrative on pages related to politics and politically sensitive topics like SARS2 and "Climate" - to commercially employed to keep unwanted narratives off certain pages.
> and why EB isn't?
Who says that Encyclopedia Britannica is not biased? They are to a certain (although lesser) extent, they just happen to be differently biased. That is where my remark on the value of diversity of opinion comes in.
[1] https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/
Take the first few paragraphs of Donald Trump [0] vs. Joe Biden [1] and try to compare the way they're presented:
Donald John Trump [...] and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six business bankruptcies. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic. [...] He reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials, used political pressure to interfere with testing efforts, and spread misinformation about unproven treatments.
There's not a single positive sentence about him. He must have done something positive in his 4 years of reign, but Wikipedia doesn't tell me that in an objective manner. Meanwhile... Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. [...] has addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He signed the American Rescue Plan Act, the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Respect for Marriage Act, which codified protections for same-sex marriage and repealed the Defense of Marriage Act. He appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. In foreign policy, Biden restored America's membership in the Paris Agreement on climate change.
There's not a single negative sentence about him. He must have done something negative in his 4 years of reign, but Wikipedia doesn't tell me that in an objective manner.Whenever someone tries to portray someone as completely evil or completely saint-like, I call bullshit.
Sometimes where there's no smoke, there's no fire. The guy is very boring and has a weird kid. That's about it.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_centrism
One POV on it:
* https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/centri...
[Trump] signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which cut taxes for individuals and businesses and rescinded the individual health insurance mandate penalty of the Affordable Care Act. He appointed 54 federal appellate judges and three U.S. Supreme Court justices. He initiated a trade war with China and withdrew the U.S. from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal.
and you also cut out a mention of a pretty significant Biden failure (in outcome, at least): [Biden] oversaw the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that had been negotiated and begun under the previous administration, ending the war in Afghanistan, during which the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control.
But moreover, the introductory paragraphs of a Wikipedia article, like the introduction to most pieces of writing, are meant to establish an overview. Assuming that the reader reads nothing else, what basic idea should they have of the thing?Donald Trump spent his four years in office much like he spent most of his previous business career: lying and committing various forms of fraud. While president, just for variety, he added lying and committing fraud about COVID, and, oh yes, inciting a violent insurrection to overthrow the American government. That should be the first thing you take away. He may have accidentally done some positive things, but none of them make the lead paragraph, because they won't be in the top 3-5 things that history remembers him for. "Scholars and historians rank Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history" appears near the end of the introduction (right before jumping back into more recent events), because that's a germane summary.
Joe Biden has spent his 2+ years in office being a relatively uninteresting mainstream-to-slightly-progressive Democrat. That should be the first thing you take away. He's not perfect, but he's doing normal president stuff. Once he's no longer president, no doubt his article will be updated to look like Obama's, which currently ends the introduction with:
Rankings by scholars and historians, in which [Obama] has been featured since 2010, place him in the middle to upper tier of American presidents.
...that is, not saintlike, but, you know, fine.Interesting that I can't find any reference for such claims in the Wikipedia article. The whole introductory paragraph contains the total of 2 sources - one a politico.com article [0] and the other a Siena College Research Institute post [1] - neither of which provide any claims other than that Trump was unpopular and "rated as worst".
You can't with a straight face claim that this is unbiased writing.
[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/30/trump-cspan-preside...
[1] https://scri.siena.edu/2022/06/22/american-presidents-greate...
Why is this not objective enough?
The other guy mostly eats ice cream and hangs out in delaware... They tried investigating him already a few times and his son and came up empty handed. Maybe time will prove he's not the best guy ever, but it's pretty safe to say the other guy should be in jail because he's a prolific criminal.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wikipedia-bias-socialism-pa...
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600200000763756544
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9283061/Wikipedia-f...
https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site...
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/27/wikipedias-left-wing-...
Compared to Britannica:
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/is-wikipedia-more-biased-than-enc...