We all knew this, but now there's an open admission.
I mean, not surprising. US, China, Russia, and other super powers, probably have their agencies on it.
China, Russia, and other super powers, probably have their agencies on it.
Source?
I said "probably". But considering that Russia has troll farms to spread bs on social networks and China is constantly trying to hack stuff in order to spy (and even Huawei products have shady backdoors in them), I wouldn't be surprised that they're doing the same.
Russia for example. https://restofworld.org/2022/russias-6-month-war-on-wikipedia/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5264889/amp/Russian-trolls-planting-fake-news-Wikipedia.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5264889/amp/Russian-trolls-planting-fake-news-Wikipedia.html
I'm not reading that first source because I'm not involving myself in this conversation except to point out that this dailymail article mentions Russians, as in, the people. It doesn't say that it is the government. When average joe citizens in the USA vandalize Wikipedia people don't say that the USA is vandalizing it.
you guys are either bots or on a payroll. Whenever some negative news about the CIA is posted, there's always a comment saying it's ok because China and Russia are worse.
They never did anything against me or my country. I have absolutely no reason to hate or distrust Russians. I don't understand how I'm brainwashed.
They haven’t? they’re causing global food prices going up by doing terrorist attacks in Ukraine.
Russians are assholes, and the Ukrainians who liked them discovered that the wrong way.
So your justification is that it’s okay since other countries are probably™ doing it?
Makes sense. Wiki recently removed the article about the Alley of Angels memorial dedicated to children in Donetsk murdered by Ukrainian fascists. If anyone hadn't heard about that. The west is framing that memorial as a Russian plant to justify the war.
Well, shit. The one nonprofit I trusted. :(
Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!
But also, didn't Greenwald go for a too long of a walk into conspiracyland?
Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!
Linux foundation, GNU/FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, Lemmy development fund, Lemmygrad server fund! Just to name a few!
Linux foundation
Don't they have some wacky takes regarding the Ukraine conflict and overall work with the Yankee MoD?
Where should my annual $3 charity budget go, now?!
Show
but more seriously regardless, wikipedia makes a ton of money from public grants and for their role helping the NSA and other federal agencies. I don't understand why they keep asking random people for money when they really, really don't need it. My theory is that because Jimmy Wales is a weird Ayn Rand libertarian, he wants to make it seem as if his model of an "encyclopedia the common man can edit" works.
Jimmy Wales is a weird Ayn Rand libertarian
Pretty sure Ayn Rand lived off of welfare while advocating against it, so it fits
Guys is it normal that Katherine Maher was CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, and subsequently joined The Atlantic Council, and currently serves on the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board?
