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\nWikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger<\/p>\n
\nWikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger<\/p>\n
The Wikipedia co-founder claims the reference site has been deleting citations from conservative sources flying in the face of its touted neutral point of view (NPOV) policy. Anger at the platform’s left bias has him starting a new reference source, “Encyclosphere.”<\/p>\n
Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n
By Thomas Lifson<\/strong><\/p>\n The left’s capture of Wikipedia and its transformation into a progressive propaganda organ has had profound political consequences. Founded on the premise of “NPOV,” or neutral point of view, the free online encyclopedia now downplays and often omits entirely points unfavorable to the left, while pushing left-wing tropes. Its co-founder, Larry Sanger, is angry at the betrayal of its original promise.<\/p>\n Carrie Sheffield writes at Just the News:<\/p>\n Last May, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger wrote an op-ed on his personal website titled “Wikipedia is Badly Biased” claiming that Wikipedia’s neutrality policy \u2014 known as “NPOV,” or neutral point of view \u2014 “is dead.”<\/em><\/p>\n Now, when schoolchildren visit the Wikipedia website to look up answers to questions about the meaning of socialism, “they’re going to find an explanation that completely ignores any conservative, libertarian, or critical treatment of the subject,” Sanger told “Just the News AM” television program. “And that’s really problematic. That’s not education. That’s propaganda.”<\/p>\n Sanger referred to a Fox News report last week by Maxim Lott, which noted, “The two main pages for ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ span a massive 28,000 words, and yet they contain no discussion of the genocides committed by socialist and communist regimes, in which tens of millions of people were murdered and starved.”<\/p>\n That’s poisonous, even if, as the article points out, some of the damaging information comes out in other sub-articles not found on the main page, where most children go to learn about a subject. Sanger traces the fall of Wikipedia to the point today, where “Wikipedia started getting rid of citations from conservative sources, ‘even conservative sources that were cited in order to explain the conservative point of view.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n