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598 points leotravis10 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.266s | source
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glitchc ◴[04 Sep 25 19:45 UTC] No.45131455[source]▶
Wikipedia has plenty of propaganda. It's often at the fringes of knowledge, in niche subjects where there isn't yet an established group of proponents and detractors. It can be quite subtle too, will fool most laypeople, even those who are otherwise intellectually savvy.

It's only when a subject becomes popular that the propaganda gets recognized and rectified.

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voxl ◴[04 Sep 25 20:13 UTC] No.45131735[source]▶
And? Share an example. This reads like conspiratorial thinking without any evidence.
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1. MSFT_Edging ◴[05 Sep 25 11:47 UTC] No.45137461[source]▶
Many historical atrocities with death counts is a common one I'll run into.

You'll see "xy atrocity had caused the deaths of this many people*", where the additional note will say something like "The numbers reported in this study have been challenged by many scholars on the subject and has been accused of invalid methods".

It's super common with history around Communist countries, because for a lot of folks in the west, the black book of communism is taken as fact when it's far from it, and you have groups like the Victims of Communism memorial foundation that have huge coffers for pushing the black book line.