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Wikipedia Co-Founder: Site’s Neutrality No Longer Exists, Favors Leftism

Paul Bois
Wikipedia Co-Founder: Site’s Neutrality No Longer Exists, Favors Leftism
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Conservatives have long been blowing the whistle on Wikipedia’s leftist bias. The site’s co-founder Larry Sanger apparently agrees with them.

In a blog post last week, Sanger argued that Wikipedia has abandoned all neutrality in the name of avoiding what activist journalists call the “false balance” – the idea that not all opposing views of an argument should be given equal time. He goes through several pages to support his thesis, noting the rather charged language often employed.

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