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Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney

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760 points coloneltcb | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 23:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jmclnx ◴[25 Apr 25 23:08 UTC] No.43799332[source]▶
Well seems the war on truth has started. There is a 1984 quote about history that escapes me now.
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Alupis[dead post] ◴[25 Apr 25 23:20 UTC] No.43799397[source]▶
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techpineapple ◴[25 Apr 25 23:26 UTC] No.43799432[source]▶
Yes, as described in the blog post, I would imagine the median Fox News viewer to find Wikipedia biased. But the median Fox News viewer is not the median American, much less median world citizen.

But no seriously, having finished reading it, this article is incredibly Christian-centric and Americentric.

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nailer ◴[25 Apr 25 23:41 UTC] No.43799500[source]▶
Regarding the missing topics mentioned in the article (updated to quote them for convenience):

    The Barack Obama article completely fails to mention many well-known scandals: Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the AP phone records scandal, and Fast and Furious, to say nothing of Solyndra or the Hillary Clinton email server scandal—or, of course, the developing “Obamagate” story in which Obama was personally involved in surveilling Donald Trump.
For example, the September 11 attacks on the US Embassy in Benghazi objectively happened - few people on the left or right would pretend they did not happen or that were not notable events of Barack Obama’s presidency (as the article discusses).

This is not a matter of whether you watch Fox News or not.

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clipsy ◴[26 Apr 25 00:00 UTC] No.43799634[source]▶
Have you bothered to do any sort of comparison as to how similar attacks are reported? At a quick glance, I see nothing on George W Bush's wiki page[0] about the 2002 consulate attack in Kolkata[1], for example.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_attack_on_American_cultur...

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nailer ◴[26 Apr 25 03:37 UTC] No.43800717[source]▶
How is that remotely similar? There was not a scandal implicating George Bush regarding the Kolkhata attack.
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clipsy ◴[26 Apr 25 05:26 UTC] No.43801163[source]▶
What scandal implicated Obama in the Benghazi attack? Be precise.
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1. nailer ◴[26 Apr 25 05:31 UTC] No.43801177{3}[source]▶
I have trouble believing anyone with the remotest knowledge of US politics is unaware of the scandal, but https://www.britannica.com/event/2012-Benghazi-attacks . 'Reactions and investigation' has the information you apparently missed all these years.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204712904578090... - "What we now know—and still don't—about President Obama's 9/11." is pretty good too.