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The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast

74. Wikipedia and Information Manipulation

The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast

Sharyl Attkisson

News

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Wikipedia and Information Manipulation

We follow the evolving definition of “President-elect” as presented by Wikipedia to demonstrate one of the many ways our online information is manipulated.

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0:51.0

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0:56.1

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1:00.8

I hope you'll consider ordering my new bestseller, slanted,

1:04.7

how the news media taught us to love censorship and hate journalism.

1:08.8

It's a nonpartisan and very telling look at the devolution of news and the control of

1:13.9

information online and on social media. It also includes a chapter on the insidious weaponization

1:21.6

of the Me Too movement. Today the podcast is going to look at Wikipedia and an instructive

1:28.5

example of today's information manipulation.

1:40.6

Wikipedia is one of my favorite topics because I knew so little about all of this when I first

1:47.4

became aware of what was going on inside Wikipedia and I came to learn so much about it through

1:52.8

personal experience and through researching for stories. I think a lot of people have a working

1:59.0

knowledge of Wikipedia how biased and slanted it can be because they know that agenda editors

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