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Transcript:
Can You Trust Wikipedia?
Presented by Ashley Rindsberg

Wikipedia is the most widely used source of information in human history.
Think about it.
When you Google anything—from historical events to current events —Wikipedia dominates the results.
Google ranks Wikipedia articles in the first spot on 80% of topic searches, and uses Wikipedia articles to populate its "knowledge panels" that are displayed next to these searches.
With this kind of reach, we would all want Wikipedia to be fair, objective, and accurate.
And if you’re doing research on Roman emperors, or Isaac Newton’s laws of motion or Beethoven’s Fifth symphony, it usually is.
But when it comes to contemporary political and social issues, Wikipedia has become something else entirely: a battlefield where ideology outranks accuracy.
When you're researching immigration, climate change, or international conflicts, you'll find not neutral information, but carefully crafted narratives.
On these issues Wikipedia is neither fair, nor objective, nor accurate.
How did this happen? Through coordinated groups of editors who systematically control what information stays and what gets deleted.
And anyone who challenges their preferred narrative gets shut down.
On issue after issue only one point of view is permitted.
Take Israel.
Over the past few years, a group of 40 anti-Israel editors have