• dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Wonder why we were taught to stay away from wikipedia instead of being taught how to use it properly 🤔. Idk how to verify sources so i trust wikipedia at face value, sorry ;(

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      4 hours ago

      It just isn’t easy at all. If someone editorializes a Wikipedia article, they can:

      • make claims without citation,
      • cite a source which does not support the claims,
      • misrepresent a source by citing it out of context, and
      • perhaps most devious of all: Just not talk about aspects that they don’t like.

      You could write an entire Wikipedia article on Adolf Hitler with perfectly cited sources, which never mentions the genocide, the warmongering, that he lost the war etc…

      You can use Wikipedia as an entrypoint for research, but you have to actually read the sources and find additional sources, independently from that.

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          It depends al lot in the subject and the amount of people with some knowledge about it. About hitler it would last only a very short time, but there have been prank pages that survived for months

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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        I would earnestly invite you to go create an account, and earnestly attempt to create disinformation. Choose a really subtle one, not a blatant one like your example. Be devious, take your time, keep trying. I think you’ll be surprised.