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Full Measure After Hours

EP 008 I Weaponization of Wikipedia

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, News Commentary

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Is it time to revolt against the forces that are trying to control our information online?

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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here.

0:38.0

Welcome to another podcast.

0:40.0

I want to talk a bit about the increasing efforts to control our information, particularly

0:46.4

social media and related platforms.

0:50.0

There's been a lot of discussion about censorship and control on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and

0:54.6

Google, but there's another giant platform that also deserves scrutiny.

1:00.0

Wikipedia.

1:02.1

It's considered the fifth most popular website in the world.

1:05.0

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 controlled by agenda editors, sometimes

1:16.9

in ways that are invisible to the viewing public.

1:20.5

I've written about this in the past.

1:22.2

You can see my investigation if you search online for the dark side of Wikipedia

1:27.0

and I've spoken about some of this in two TEDx talks.

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