{"id":12546,"date":"2019-05-26T08:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12546"},"modified":"2019-05-26T08:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T12:25:04","slug":"wikipedia-isbroken-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wikipedia-isbroken-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWikipedia is\u2026broken,\u201d controlled by special interests and bad actors, says co-founder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-26-\u201cWikipedia-is\u2026broken\u201d-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder-Sharyl-Attkisson.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12547\" width=\"637\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-26-\u201cWikipedia-is\u2026broken\u201d-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder-Sharyl-Attkisson.png 552w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screenshot_2019-05-26-\u201cWikipedia-is\u2026broken\u201d-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder-Sharyl-Attkisson-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SHARYL ATTKISSON<\/strong>, by Sharyl Attkisson &#8212; May 25, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em> I\u2019ve done quite a bit of <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zwg2yQETiro\" target=\"_blank\"><em>reporting<\/em><\/a><em>  about how Wikipedia is definitely not \u201cthe encyclopedia anyone can  edit.\u201d It\u2019s become a vehicle for special interests to control  information. Agenda editors are able to prevent or revert edits and  sourcing on selected issues and people in order to control the  narrative. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My own battle with Wikipedia included being unable to correct  provably false facts such as incorrect job history, incorrect birth  place and incorrect birth date.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What\u2019s worse is that agenda editors related to pharmaceutical  interests and the partisan blog Media Matters control my Wikipedia  biographical page, making sure that slanted or false information stays  on it. For example, they  falsely refer to my reporting as  \u201canti-vaccine,\u201d and imply my reporting on the topic has been  discredited. In fact, my vaccine and medical reporting has been  recognized by top national journalism awards organizations, and has even  been cited as a source in a peer reviewed scientific publication.  However, anyone who tries to edit this factual context and footnotes  onto my page finds it is quickly removed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2019\/05\/wikipedia-is-broken-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29\">https:\/\/sharylattkisson.com\/2019\/05\/wikipedia-is-broken-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHARYL ATTKISSON, by Sharyl Attkisson &#8212; May 25, 2019 Excerpt: I\u2019ve done quite a bit of reporting about how Wikipedia is definitely not \u201cthe encyclopedia anyone can edit.\u201d It\u2019s become a vehicle for special interests to control information. Agenda editors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wikipedia-isbroken-controlled-by-special-interests-and-bad-actors-says-co-founder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12548,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12546\/revisions\/12548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}