The business is being sued by Kathy Maher, NPR’s recently appointed CEO, over her previous tweets as a veteran editor, who accuses the business of communist bias. But along the means, another exciting line of analysis has opened — how Maher destroyed Wikipedia by abusing the “free and open ” discussions on “online wikipedia” because it was intended to be a “white man westernized construct.” ”
The Daily Mail information that After a resurfaced clip from a 2021 panel discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council, which revealed her calling the First Amendment the “number one challenge ” in American news, Katherine Maher, NPR’s newly appointed CEO, sparked controversy. Maher, who formerly held the position of CEO of Wikimedia, the parent company of Wikipedia, claimed that the First Amendment provides a “fairly robust defense of freedom, ” making it “a little tricky to handle some of the real difficulties of where negative knowledge comes from.” ”
In addition to blatantly referencing former president Donald Trump as a ‘deranged discriminatory narcissist, ’ Maher has also shared photographs wearing President Biden’s campaign clothes in response to the controversy. Maher has also expressed views on sex and language, tweeting, “ I do wish Hillary would n’t use the language of “boy and girl” – it ’s erasing speech for non-binary people. ”
Some of Maher’s statements reflect her period leading the parent foundation of Wikipedia, aside from her extreme communist political beliefs. Her remarks about a “free and open ” Wikipedia, where users who are actually “white male Westernized constructs, ” are eye opening and explain how Wikipedia developed into a cesspit of fringe leftist beliefs where any balance or conservative viewpoints are immediately rejected.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher claims that she abandoned a “free and open” computer as part of Wikipedia’s mission because those guidelines recapitulated a” white man Westernized construct” and “did never end up living into the subjectivity of what accessibility can be.” ” photograph. tweets. com/Ved9mgGvJH
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔ ️ ( @realchrisrufo ) April 18, 2024
Maher’s leadership and attitude at Wikipedia contribute a lot to understanding how the site evolved from being an online dictionary into a repository for serious leftist groupthink and fake news. Breitbart News has over the centuries investigated and covered a number of false information lies that started appearing on Wikipedia, including one involving Breitbart News itself:
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Breitbart News has also been the theme of a Wikipedia fake on its own website where left-wing director “Snooganssnoogans” added a state in earlier 2017 that Breitbart promoted the “Pizzagate” crime hypothesis, which claims John Podesta’s e-mails about pie are coded links to a child sex band connected to the Story. The cited source does n’t claim this and Breitbart’s only appearance in the article is an embedded tweet from its verified account, which mentioned one of Podesta’s pizza-related e-mails weeks before the conspiracy theories emerged.
However, editors kept the material even after it was challenged. An news/world/americas/breitbart-news-rape-regrettable-sex-editor-in-chief-alex-marlow-steve-bannon-a8069021.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener external”>article in the Independent would later make up this false accusation along with other offensive material that had been copied from the Breitbart news/world/americas/breitbart-news-rape-regrettable-sex-editor-in-chief-alex-marlow-steve-bannon-a8069021.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener external”>article on Wikipedia. One editor suggested citing the news/world/americas/breitbart-news-rape-regrettable-sex-editor-in-chief-alex-marlow-steve-bannon-a8069021.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener external”>article for additional assertions on the page. Breitbart News has never promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, but news.go.com/US/victims-feds-hid-sweetheart-deal-sex-offender-deep/story?id=36843144″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener external”>justnews/world/americas/who-is-jeffrey-epstein-a-study-of-the-man-linked-to-worlds-of-celebrity-politics-and-royalty-9954397.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener external”>likemanyothernewsoutlets, it has reported on the connection between the Clintons and the late accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Ironically, Breitbart has been banned from Wikipedia for nearly two years after editors deemed it “unreliable ” in a discussion claiming Breitbart publishes “fake news ” on its site.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has been a particularly fierce critic of the site’s loss of balance, which again can be attributed to Maher’s leadership:
On May 14, Sanger published a blog piece titled “Wikipedia Is Badly Biased ” and started by declaring Wikipedia’s “Neutral Point of View ” policy dead. having co-founded the online dictionary with Jimmy Wales and been a part of the original drafting Sanger provided particular insight into the policy’s development and its usage in recent years. On the current policy ’s rejection of providing “equal validity ” to different views, Sanger stated this went directly against the original policy ’s intent and that “as journalists turn to opinion and activism, Wikipedia now touts controversial points of view on politics, religion, and science. ”
Providing examples, Sanger noted former President Obama’s article excludes most notable scandals during his Administration, such as the bungled ATF Fast and Furious operation that armed Mexican cartels who murdered a U.S. S. border agent or the targeting of Tea Party groups by the IRS. By contrast, Sanger pointed to Trump’s article containing overwhelmingly negative comments about the President’s “public profile” as well as inquiries and impeachments. The criticisms of Trump and his presidency are nearly as long as those relating to his presidency as a whole. He further criticized Wikipedia, saying that Trump repeatedly makes false claims rather than crediting sources for them.
Read more at the Daily Mail here.
For Breitbart News, Lucas Nolan is a reporter covering issues involving online censorship and free speech.
