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Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by sheepz »

411111111111111 wrote: post #28
prox wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

History was always written by the victors, we only see it happen in real time now.

...and to a much greater degree then people realize, really. As a simple example, WW2. There where several polls over the decades in Germany which country contributed the most to the fall of Nazi Germany. In the beginning, it was mostly attributed to Russia (something like 80%) with the USA mostly protecting Europe from getting integrated into Russia after the fall. But over time this opinion has been overturned to b…

s/Russia/Soviet Union/g.

The huge role of Soviet Union was pushed by the Soviet Union as part of its Great Patriotic War narrative is continued to this day by Russia's propaganda. Without the US Lend-Lease, the situation could have turned out much differently for the soviets (as even Stalin himself admitted).

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by nonameiguess »

ailef wrote: post #2

One amusing edit: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diff/7d674d710c8d1328f0f74f6b351ff... IPs from the European Parliament editing out connections to Cambridge Analytica from Alex Phillips' (member of the European Parliament) page: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diff/584f4588ec12334300a448f39ae4c...

My wife's best friend used to work for Wikipedia and said they had to block any edits made from the IP range belonging to the US capitol building. Maybe they need to just do this for all legislative offices of all countries.

Not that it stops the same people from just making these edits from home or learning to use a VPN.

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by slackfan »

Remember when Wikipedia was never to be used as an authoritative source on any subject? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Interesting how that suddenly changes around the time that smith-mundt was repealed.

But don't listen to me, I suffer from realistic dreams and an imperfect memory, that never happened, we have always been at war with eastasia.

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by arminiusreturns »

In the conspiracy community, wikipedia articles relevant to conspiracy theories often have extremely revealing edits and have been known as a source of checking for coverup for a while. The truth, I've found, is often so shocking that many if not most people, would rather reject it (attack the messenger, bury head in sand, etc) than admit their worldview has been so wrong for so long.

I've even seen sections in the edits go poof for very big stuff.

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

#48

Post by hardlianotion »

sheepz wrote: post #41
411111111111111 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...and to a much greater degree then people realize, really. As a simple example, WW2. There where several polls over the decades in Germany which country contributed the most to the fall of Nazi Germany. In the beginning, it was mostly attributed to Russia (something like 80%) with the USA mostly protecting Europe from getting integrated into Russia after the fall. But over time this opinion has been overturned to b…

s/Russia/Soviet Union/g. The huge role of Soviet Union was pushed by the Soviet Union as part of its Great Patriotic War narrative is continued to this day by Russia's propaganda. Without the US Lend-Lease, the situation could have turned out much differently for the soviets (as even Stalin himself admitted).

And the Royal Merchant Marine making huge efforts at resupply, and the UK's own material response.

Re: Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments

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Post by hardlianotion »

passwordoops wrote: post #12
skilled wrote: post #6

I have to say, this is depressing to see just how corrupt brands and institutions are to protect their own bullshit. Nevertheless, great work and a very useful project.

You really want to feel depressed? Look up Unusual Whales [1], a day trading app focusing on investment flows in the markets who does an annual report on insider trading by US officials, including Congress and SCOTUS. Even went so far as to create a congressional ETF. The focus is US pols, but no reason to suspect other jurisdictions are any better. There's a reason both parties put a HUUGE emphasis on culture war -…

Their collection of ETFs has a standout in their anti Jim Cramer ETF

https://unusualwhales.com/etfs

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