EP 008 I Weaponization of Wikipedia
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'll bet you have something to say. Did you know you don't have to have any fancy equipment to start your own podcast? |
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| 0:37.2 | Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome to another podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | I want to talk a bit about the increase. here. Welcome to another podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | I want to talk a bit about the increasing efforts to control our information, particularly social media and related platforms. |
| 0:51.0 | There's been a lot of discussion about censorship and control on YouTube, Facebook, |
| 0:56.3 | Twitter, and Google, but there's another giant platform that also deserves scrutiny. |
| 1:02.0 | Wikipedia. It's considered the fifth most popular website |
| 1:06.7 | in the world. And yes, you may know that some of the information isn't reliable, but many don't know the extent to which pages and topics are |
| 1:15.6 | controlled by agenda editors, sometimes in ways that are invisible to the viewing public. |
| 1:22.7 | I've written about this in the past. |
| 1:24.4 | You can see my investigation if you search online |
| 1:26.8 | for the dark side of Wikipedia. |
| 1:30.0 | And I've spoken about some of this in two TEDx talks. |
| 1:34.0 | But recently again, I took the battle |
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