Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia alleging a pattern of liberal bias in articles on the collaborative encyclopedia.
“I write to request information about ideological bias on the Wikipedia platform and at the Wikimedia Foundation,” Cruz wrote to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander in a letter dated October 3. “Wikipedia began with a noble concept: crowdsource human knowledge using verifiable sources and make it free to the public. That’s what makes reports of Wikipedia’s systemic bias especially troubling.”
Citing research from the conservative Manhattan Institute, Cruz wrote that “researchers have found that articles on the site often reflect a left-wing bias.” Cruz alleged that “bias is particularly evident in Wikipedia’s reliable sources/perennial sources list” because it describes “MSNBC and CNN as ‘generally reliable’ sources, while listing Fox News as a ‘generally unreliable’ source for politics and science. The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center gets a top rating, but the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, is a ‘blacklisted’ and ‘deprecated’ source that Wikipedia’s editors have determined ‘promotes disinformation.’”
It’s kind of funny how when your goal becomes to present factual information, there aren’t many especially right-leaning sources. I wonder why that might be.
Can you think of why that might be the case, Ted?
I’m not sure ol’ Rafael is capable of thought.
He is very capable of thought. He’s an intelligent and well educated man who puts on a persona to further his own agenda. He is lacking empathy and morals, not thought.
I have yet to see any evidence of that. Everything I’ve heard from him has always been utterly moronic.
He probably took on the mantra of the SubGenius, but for dark purposes: “Act like a dumbshit, and they’ll treat you like an equal”.
I’ve seen Ted Cruz eat his own boogers.
He graduated from Princeton, and Harvard Law School. He is not a stupid person, it’s mostly an act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Education
That said, conservatism seems to literally damage the brain, so he’s probably gotten dumber over the years.
Little Raffy doesn’t even deserve a cute irreverent nickname. Just another asshole trying to ruin the world
Also, these ding-a-lings keep confusing rather mid corporate news outlets as “liberal”. Also, it’s awfully interesting how butthurt the right is about SPLC, I have to say. They’ve been howling about that one for years. Gosh, I wonder what it is about SPLC that makes them so angry?
Reminds me of how they used to howl about ACORN until they had that little weasel O’Keefe make up a bunch of bullshit about it. Of course, a lot of these little shits have been whining about Wikipedia ever since its inception, since people constantly use it as a way to refute their LIES.
This is how you move the Overton window.
Ted isn’t confusing anything here, he knows exactly what he is doing.
Jesus Christ, things were so quaint back then…
Sorry, yeah, I should have pointed out that the con base are the ones getting confused. The likes of Ted definitely know what they are doing when it comes to this lie.
It’s arguably true in the traditional sense of “liberal”. But these are the same Republicans who also use “liberal” and “Marxist” interchangeably, so that’s probably not their point.