Extensive Edits To Hunter Biden’s Wikipedia Page Prove Site’s Extreme BiasWikipedia is a cesspool of partisans that enables outside sources to retroactively scrub its pages and lace its articles with propaganda.BY: JORDAN BOYD
AUGUST 17, 2023
Emails from Hunter Biden suggest that the son of now-President Joe Biden paid thousands of dollars to a public relations firm to scrub his Wikipedia page of several unflattering details about his personal life and business ties.
Paying someone to alter the pages that are presented as fact and often the first result to pop up in a search about a person, place, or thing seems like a practice that should be prohibited. Wikipedia, however, does nothing to stop outside influences from lacing its articles with propaganda. Instead, it has an effectively unenforceable policy that paid editing must be disclosed by the person making the edits.
As previously reported by The Federalist, Wikipedia partners with Big Tech companies like Google to maintain a quiet monopoly on internet knowledge. This power alliance has become increasingly worrisome in recent years since, as Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger recounted in an interview in 2021, “The days of Wikipedia’s robust commitment to neutrality are long gone.”
Any user who wants to manipulate a Wikipedia page to fit his agenda can do that as long as it slips through the company’s host of left-leaning administrators. That is exactly what happened in 2014 when the younger Biden decided he wanted a public facelift.
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Investigative reporter Lee Fang discovered via emails found on Hunter’s laptop that the then-vice president’s son paid FTI Consulting to help erase his publicly documented ties to convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford.
“Ryan- below is a start. Eric is my partner and cc’d- he’s going to make additional edits,” Hunter wrote in a May 22, 2014 email to an FTI employee.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2023/08/17/extensive-edits-to-hunter-bidens-wikipedia-page-prove-sites-extreme-bias/
