update: they got rid of it

  • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Looks like there have been a series of related edits lately trying to sneak in socialist/left wing wording in a couple places.

    At the top of the Talk page:

    Fascism is a right-wing ideology.

    The consensus of political scientists, historians, and other reliable sources is that Fascism is a right-wing ideology and not a left-wing one. This has been discussed numerous times. Please see this FAQ and read the talk page archives.. Please do not request that "right-wing" be changed to "left-wing"; your request will be denied, and you may be blocked from editing if you persist in doing so.

    Acknowledging basic facts is something, I guess, based on the fact that I'm always hearing that Wikipedia editors are a bunch of chuds.

    It still seems like a pretty big problem if some random chud can falsely claim that fascism is left wing and the biggest search engine on earth will regurgitate that as fact (with the inherent appearance of authority) to any normie looking it up.

    • IdiotDoomPoster [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      In that talk page is some dude trying to distance right-wing ideology from fascism, and he opens with this.

      I'm not a right-winger. In fact, I'm further left than most left-wingers. That said, I still understand when things are and are not neutral in point-of-view.

      Dead giveaway this dude's a fascist.

      • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Leftists famously choose "fascism is left-wing" as a hill to die on

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Damn, was giving the control of information to a bunch of algorithms not capable of critical thought a mistake?

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          There can be more than one issue. It's both a problem that google's algorithm can be gamed, and that they can destroy independent left wing media by deprioritizing them in search results. Just in this instance is quite clearly an issue of the algorithm getting gamed.