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holy heck there is so much wrong about this video. i can't believe "internet influencers" can just turn on their cameras and spew so much untruth without a care in the world...

comparatively wikipedia is imperfect, but much better than this kind of slop.

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Feel free to actually articulate the actual issues you’re referring to.

It’s been a while since I watched it but the thing I remember taking away was you can do a lot better than Wikipedia, and he encouraged people to spend more time looking at primary sources for deeper research, and points out how it’s the basis of a lot of slop on YouTube.

Seems like he's recommending secondary sources over Wikipedia as a tertiary source.

That’s probably more correct actually, I guess primary source would be talking to witnesses or the subjects themselves.

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