The Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor said it will fine Wikipedia up to 4 million rubles (about $49,000) if it doesn’t delete factual information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in its Russian language encyclopedia entries.
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I bet that if it was the US asking Wikipedia to edit articles the media wouldn’t use the word “demand” or attribute it to the whole US. A likely headline would be: “email shows US official asked Wikipedia to censor ‘misinformation’”.

    • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      The US edits information on Wikipedia to serve its narrative all the time, just through quiet back channels. Western media wouldn’t report on it even if it were done super obviously. It’s rumored that one of the most prolific Wikipedia editors is really British Intelligence. You can also trace the IPs doing edits to places like the CIA.

    • mekhos@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Close, from the article-

      The Russian media censorship agency Roskomnadzor demanded the volunteer-run online encyclopedia take down any information on the invasion that is “misinforming” Russians, according to a statement.

      • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        Wikipedia is not volunteer run… They’re using language to make it seem like it’s a little website with a dream being bullied by the mean Russians. Wikipedia is run by its administrators, who do not let anyone else encroach on their power. 3 editors are responsible for most edits (I want to say 90%). Famously there is one editor that edits from 6 am to 10pm every day without fail (mostly pro war edits) , and the most prolific editor worked as a TSA and ICE agent terrorizing migrants.

        • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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          2 years ago

          There are thousands of Wikipedia administrators, and they’re voted in by the community. The people who actually run Wikipedia are Bureaucrats.

          The 3 editors your referring to are bot accounts that do things like archive pages and format things consistently.

          Please learn more before spouting blatant lies, thanks :)

          • A Wikipedia editor

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators

            • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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              2 years ago

              You can’t just drop links and racism and pretend that’s an argument. Your post talked about administrators, I explained why that’s wrong. That goal post stays where it is.

              • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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                2 years ago

                Errr parent comment was troubling, but your claiming that calling out whiteness is “racism” is even more troubling. I don’t know a single place on earth where anti-white racism is a thing, despite fascists claiming that. To be clear, some anti-white resentment does exist in white-supremacist regions, but resentment is not racism or rather is a small subset of racism and not the actual problem that we more precisely call “structural racism”. (see also the wikipedia pages on those topics :))

                • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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                  2 years ago

                  resentment is not racism

                  I left Ruqqus for the stupid racism there, didn’t expect to find it on Lemmy

                  That aside, I agree with most of what you said. My post was just to call out CriticalResist for running behind text walls after posting patently false info

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      I hope someday the world cheers on to say

      Fuck every Western country government but we love people lol💛💚💙💜🤎

      and let the Western countries, that are okay today with subjecting others to atrocities, rot in their own mess, with nobody to help them and if they attempt to conquer and colonise again, liberate them like Libya