If Albanese and his absurd censor Julie Inman Grant are really interested in genuine misinformation, Wikipedia is a good one to start on.

You want to stay ignorant and wrong? Go to Wikipedia.

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The author of this article, Murray Hunter, wrote :

« The recent revelations of past “tweets’ by Kathrine Maher during her tenure as Wikipedia Foundation CEO (now NPR CEO), has caused some alarm over the integrity of Wikipedia »

And ttbn commented :

« If Albanese and his absurd censor Julie Inman Grant are really interested in genuine misinformation, Wikipedia is a good one to start on.

You want to stay ignorant and wrong? Go to Wikipedia. »
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Katherine Maher is no longer the CEO of Wikipedia.

The current CEO is Maryana Iskander. She was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation in September 2021. As the CEO, Maryana Iskander champions the organization’s goal to ensure that people everywhere can access and share knowledge freely. Her formal tenure began on January 5, 2022, and she reports to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Maryana was educated in the US and the UK. She holds B.A. magna cum laude from Rice University, an M.Sc. from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she received a Distinguished Alumna Award. Maryana is also a Truman Scholar, a Henry Crown Fellow, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She serves on the board of World Education Services.
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What I think can be rightly said about the Wikipedia worldwide community is that it evolves and changes over time, just as each and every one of us evolves and changes over time, together with much of our knowledge and understanding of events and reality.

From my point of view, the Churchillian comment on democracy could well apply to Wikipedia too.

Here is the new CEO, Maryana Iskander’s conception :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMUTUm5Il38

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Speaking at the 2023 UN General Assembly, Maryana Iskander stated :

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« One thing I’ve learned from Wikipedia volunteers is how the day-to-day process of building and improving Wikipedia works. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a social media platform or an opinion page. Contributors to Wikipedia collaborate, debate and discuss their edits in order to write thoughtful, informative articles. They provide citations and sources, they weigh multiple perspectives so that they can make good-faith decisions about content together. They embrace the spirit of collaboration across national borders to provide the most accurate information possible for the world. They set and enforce rules for what does and doesn’t belong on the projects, guided by a universal code of conduct and supported by the Foundation’s commitment to human rights standards. »

She also indicated :

« Reliable, verified facts need people to discover, report, research, curate, translate, analyze and organize them. This means that the people who do such work - including Wikipedians - need to be protected.

In this age of AI, it is getting harder to ensure that technology serves people - not the other way around. To thrive economically, socially, and culturally - and to exercise all other fundamental human rights - people need well-sourced knowledge that is available in their own languages.

We are experimenting with ways that AI tools can help Wikipedians do their work while keeping humans in control of the facts. There is much discussion here in New York at the UN this week about AI regulation. We certainly believe that any company or organization that deploys AI should be held accountable to and by those affected. »

Here is the speech :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZxw3LZN_0

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That's pretty funni.

A Biased Right wing guy posting on a Right Wing sponsored forum complaining about a left wing bias somewhere else.

You can't make this stuff up.

There is a war against misinformation and an epistemic emergency what about a war against the "Marxist Emergency Creators". This is probably the most important issue of our time.