Wikipedia founder responds to leftist bias accusations

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Founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales says the left-wing bias accusation by Manhattan Institute “is not persuasive” to him and the platform reflects the state of media landscape itself.  #Wikipedia #ElonMusk #AlArabiyaNews #GNT

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00:00So, how do you respond to the accusation, for example, from the Manhattan Institute?

00:05It's a think tank which has reported concerns that Wiki is more hard on right-leaning public

00:13figures than it is on left-leaning public figures.

00:16How do you respond to that?

00:18Well, I mean, when I look at the actual paper there, it's just not persuasive to me.

00:26They don't really marshal all the right kinds of evidence and so forth.

00:31One of the issues is, obviously, Wikipedia will reflect the media, and so to the extent

00:36that we are quoting from major media and so forth, if there's a certain language like

00:42far right that appear more often than far left, well, that actually can reflect bias

00:47in the media, but it also can reflect sort of a current state of affairs.

00:51In other words, the far left exists, and they're talked about quite a lot in the far

00:56right as well.

00:57So, you know, I don't really see that as a massive problem other than sort of more broadly

01:02to say, gee, you know, like the media should probably rein in the way they talk about things

01:07and really strive hard for neutrality.

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