How Wikipedia lies to you | Ashley Rindsberg
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How's the business going? We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor, Julie, who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people, and Job Center Plus really took the hassle |
| 0:21.2 | out of it, and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list. Find out more at |
| 0:26.0 | business.gov.uk. Eligibility criteria apply. Wikipedia, what you're seeing the very |
| 0:33.0 | surface level is really the problem, because what you're not seeing underneath the interface are the |
| 0:40.7 | edit wars, the ideological battles, the propagandists. |
| 0:44.7 | Seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth might not be the right place |
| 0:51.7 | to start. |
| 0:52.6 | So pernicious because the editors who are doing this kind of thing, they understand |
| 0:56.0 | that it is a backdoor vulnerability into the information ecosystem. They know how to hack it. |
| 1:03.7 | Hello, I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spiked. I'm absolutely thrilled to be joined by |
| 1:08.6 | Ashley Rinsberg, the founding editor of NPOV. |
| 1:13.4 | Ashley, welcome. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you, Friszer. Good to be here. |
| 1:16.4 | Actually, you've been doing a lot of investigations into Wikipedia, so I really, really wanted to talk to you about this. |
| 1:22.9 | Elon Musk has launched Grochoppedia. It's probably a bit too early to say whether that's a success or not. |
| 1:30.3 | But I wanted to talk to you a little bit about the reasons why, why Wikipedia is seen to have |
| 1:35.2 | gone so badly wrong. So a lot of people will think Wikipedia is a neutral source. I go on an |
| 1:41.8 | article, it has citations, it's pointing to other reputable places, |
| 1:47.5 | what could possibly go wrong with Wikipedia? But you've noticed that something has gone very |
| 1:52.5 | badly awry. Yeah, Wikipedia, it's in a way, what you're seeing, the very surface level is |
| 1:58.8 | really the problem, because what you're not seeing underneath the |
| 2:03.8 | interface are the edit wars, the ideological battles, the propagandists, the state-aligned |
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