• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      Even for political content it’s damn good. Every time someone on Lemmy points to an explicit article of bias, it falls into one of 3 categories:

      • Slightly unfair bias, but still largely true
      • Article is correct, Lemmy cannot provide a reliable source proving otherwise
      • Article is incorrect, reliable source found, article amended

      The third case happened once in an article about a UN Resolution on North Korea, and it was because the original article source was slightly misinterpreted. But yea, basically what I’m trying to say is if a “political article” is “wrong” but you can’t prove it, it’s not the political article that’s wrong but you.

      Edit: ITT - People upset with my analysis, but not willing to provide sources to the articles they disagree with

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          And Wikipedia has an overall left-bias, because of the demographic of contributors.

          FROM YOUR LINK

          Until 2021, we rated Wikipedia as Center, but changed them to Not Rated because the online encyclopedia does not fit neatly into AllSides’ media bias rating methodologies, which were developed specifically for news sites.

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            Allsides, that rates media outlets, doesn’t give a media bias rating. However, that page I linked still shows the bias even if it doesn’t get them a media bias rating.

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          And sometimes it literally is USA propaganda. It’s quite rare, but those articles should get fixed. Changing something like “The guerrilla fighters killed babies” to “The US State Department claimed the guerrilla fighters killed babies, but critics call the claim “wholly unfounded” [source]”.

          But yea, as I said, actually a lot more rare than you’d think.

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          tankies be like

          “Wikipedia is unreliable, here’s our wiki where we source reddit comments”

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            Yo the tankie wiki is fucking hilarious. The USSR page has this gold mine:

            “On 8 August 1945, exactly three months after the defeat of Nazi Germany, Soviet troops entered Manchuria and Korea, and Japan surrendered within a week.”

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        Wikipedia completely slanders people it doesnt like. For example Daniele Ganser who helped to reveal Operation Gladio.