Sharyl Attkisson is an Emmy award winning investigative journalist. She is the author of Stonewalled, which addresses the unseen influences of corporations and special interests on the information and images the public receives every day in the news and elsewhere.
On April 17, 2016 she did a special episode of Full Measure on the "Dark Side of Wikipedia."
"Right now, this very second, people are busily editing away on the website Wikipedia, at a rate of more than ten edits per second. There are over five million articles written in English on Wikipedia, with a thousand being added every day."
"But there’s a dark side to Wikipedia you probably don’t know about. The promise of accurate, neutral articles and privacy for contributors is often just a mirage, according to two insiders. They say they’ve been left battle-scarred after troubling personal encounters with the world’s most popular encyclopedia."
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QUOTES FROM THE VIDEO:
In a given day, Wikipedia administrators are blocking about 1,000 IP addresses
Special Interests control information
Wikipedia is often edited by people who have an agenda
The ruling authorities are the volunteer editors who have reached the most powerful editing status, known only by their usernames. They ALWAYS WIN the Edit Wars.
You have different people with a particular scientific point-of-view and they'll edit and modify Wikipedia so that its articles reflect that point of view.
Two trusted Wikipedia officials were exposed running business that covertly edited Wikipedia for PR clients.
Interests for Sony, the CIA, Barack Obama, and John MacCain all reportedly have been caught secretly editing their own Wikipedia page to their own advantage.
Anonymous Wikipedia Editors maintain a stranglehold on selected topics.
Gregory Kohs of Wikipediocracy.com demonstrates with a case of Morgellon's Disease. The Mayo Clinic calls it an unexplained skin disorder characterized by sores.
Yet Wikipedia page dismisses Morgellon's as a Delusional Belief.
So Kohs added a Research Footnote with a link to this study abstract.
In 38 minutes, that edit disappears. If you know where to look, you can see a list of topics that the same Editor worked hard to control. Some of them included vaccine controversy, thiomersal, aspartame and homeopathy.
This administrator is seemingly involved with the medical or pharmaceutical profession, with an agenda to discredit or suppress alternative medicines.
This Investigative Report is just another reminder that the "FAKE NEWS" is more likely to be the "Mainstream News" rather than the Alternative Media.
So is Wikipedia really where you would want to go to find the truth behind today's controversial topics, like PizzaGate?
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