The founder of Wikipedia caused Maga’s outrage to call news sources. Website “Included in the Black List”.
“The Blacklisted Sources Are Breitbart, Daily Caller, Epoch Times, Fox News, New York Post, The Federalist, SO YOU CAN’T USE THOSE THOSE AS SOURCES On Wikipedia,” Larry Sanger Told Tucker Carlson On Monday’s Episode of Episode Tucker Carlson Show.
To the surprise of Carlson, the founder of Wikipedia, who is now a site critic, has revealed that Wikipedia has “reliable sources/perennial sources” that describes the reliability of quoted sources.
Larry Sanger founded Wikipedia and was a longtime site critic. / Ullstein Bild / Ulli Winkler / Ullstein Bild via Getty Images
“Why don’t anyone talk about it?” Carlson asked Monday Podcast, encouraging Sanger to answer, “It’s just shameful on the left, so the left is not going to report it,” which caused the magic influx of discussion x.
“It’s a wild from the founder of Wikipedia,” wrote one user, sharing a clip from the Carlson’s Podcast along with the list, which Sanger has provided from prohibited sources along with the “automatically approved” list: Nyt, Washpo, CNN, GLAAD, ADL “.
However, although the approved list checks, the treatment of Wikipedia in other places is more complex. Of those cited only by Sanger Breitbart News There is officially “black list”, editing it by quoting it automatically blocked. New York record and Federalist are marked as “dubious” sources and are allowed in limited cases while Daily caller and Era era are marked “frustrated” and considered “usually unreliable”, although they can be quoted “undeniable self -descriptions”.
Wikipedia seems undecided about Fox News, noting its overall news coverage as “a bit reliable”, following its politics, science and talk shows “Usually Unreliable”.
“Wikipedia is unfair,” wrote Texas Senator Ted Cruz in response to a Monday Podcast clip. Meanwhile, American Conservative activist Tom Fitton called the “left smear machine” website.
Elon Musk, a longtime Wikipedia critic, said to his followers that he was creating a “Grocipedia” that “would be a huge improvement in Wikipedia.”
Elon Musk promised to make his own
In response to Musk, Sanger announced: “Let’s hope he will not be as biased as the Grok herself, stating the Tech Billoner AI talk disputes this year, when some of his answers were anti -Semitic and racist content.”
This is not the first time Musk talked about Wikipedia. 2023 He promised to give the site a billion dollars if it changed its name to the D-Kipedia, and later urged it to be removed after his own Wikipedia page said he once made a gesture compared to the Nazi greeting, “said the action by President Donald Trump in January.
“I think Elon is unhappy that Wikipedia is not for sale,” another Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wrote at the time.
Unlike Sanger, Wales defended Wikipedia’s criticism as a “awakened” site. “We really have a very old tradition, you know, respecting freedom of expression,” he said Telegraph 2023
After the Sanger appearance Tucker Carlson Show, Even the son of the President was considering criticism, saying, “Wikipedia regularly slander conservative lies and smears, so it explains a lot.”
“Wikipedia is desperately biased. The left-wing activist army supports BIOS and fights with reasonable amendments,” technical businessman David Sacks wrote, adding: “Wikipedia often appears in Google search results, This is a huge problem. ”
The Wikimedia Foundation – a non -profit organization that accepts Wikipedia – has previously noted that “So far every LLM [Large Language Model] is taught Wikipedia content, and this is almost always the largest source of training data in their data sets. ‘
Wikipedia describes its list of sources as “incomplete sources whose reliability and use of Wikipedia is often discussed”, which means that consensus on the reliability of the source may change and the list may be updated.
Daily Beast contacted the Wikimedia Foundation to comment on how reliability is made.