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15 years ago, the line was "you shouldnt trust wikipedia, because ANYONE could edit it! Those are not official sources!"

now, we've learned that you shouldn't trust wikipedia exactly because those same "official sources" edit it to align with their geopolitical interests.

Then again, we knew that 15 years ago - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN1...

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They've learned from their mistakes.

These days, people effortlessly get their beliefs enshrined in Wikipedia by paying "journalists" (freelance writers, not actual investigative journalists) to write fluff pieces, which then get cited as factual.

And then in a year or two linkrot happens and now the article exists as some useless thing.

which doesn't matter, because the op is done.

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