How the Regime Captured Wikipedia
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Honestly, I find this article disappointing. It speaks about events in 2017, 2019, 2020 as "how Wikipedia was infiltrated and subverted," but in truth it's just recounting the moment that some of the people and cliques who had been accruing power there for a long time went slightly more mask off. The earliest red flag it mentions is financial association with a left-wing donor group as of 2016, but it doesn't cover anything about how they came to be associated.
Anyone here who remembers Wikipedia's coverage of Gamergate should know that it already had a heavily leftist bent as of 2014, and I am certain that's not the beginning of the story either. Looking at Jimmy Wales himself, I would suggest that it was never "subverted." Rather, it was run by leftists from its inception, and only became more extreme as they themselves did.
Like with everything else, Trump being elected is a pivotal moment that broke their minds.
Before ~2015 wikipedia was left-leaning, but neutral in tone; "just the facts", but without some "problematic" facts. After for sure 2016 they dropped the neutral tone and now it's only the negative facts about non-lefties and the writing uses emotional tones.
So there was a huge shift around that time.
Compare after-announcing Trump 2015 to Current Trump. In the very long 2015 article there's nothing negative outside the short Controversies section at the very end (the only purposeful negative is listing bankruptcies without mentioning total number of businesses). The current one there is nothing positive anywhere in the article. For instance securing financing for black colleges and black unemployment isn't even mentioned at all - because they're a positive for him.
I don't think I've ever read Trump's wikipedia before but it's actually sickening to see the difference between these two. I knew wikipedia was bad now, but I hadn't realized it was this bad.