UC-Berkeley Prof Substitutes Exam for Creating Wikipedia Pages About ‘Queer and Trans People of Color’
"frames the project as a form of opposition to the Trump administration"...
"frames the project as a form of opposition to the Trump administration"...
"The edits to Wikipedia’s History of Israel page show how references to the Jewish people’s ancient connection to the land were erased, replaced with a vague regional narrative that blurs Israel’s identity and distorts historical truth."...
"One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel."...
"to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses"...
"In one instance, an NPR report about a young Palestinian flying a kite with a swastika on it was deleted from a Wikipedia page about Gaza protests"...
"it would suggest that Hamas directly influences the numbers and casts doubt over the numbers when the ministry is widely viewed as reliable"...
"a highly coordinated, sustained and remarkably effective campaign to radically alter public perception of the conflict"...
"All of these critiques are assertions not of fact but of leftist dogma, designed to create the impression that left-wing antisemitism does not—indeed, could not—exist."...
"apparent across groups, including United States presidents, senators, representatives, governors, Supreme Court justices, and journalists"...
Never stop being you, Congresswoman Lee, never stop....
Well, that certainly caught my interest, and it wasn't too hard to find out what happened.
By the time I clicked back on Wikipedia, the "human garbage" entry was gone, replaced by a more neutral analysis.
Looking back at the Edit History of the page, it's easy to see that the moment after the interview, there were numerous attempts to "vandalize" the page (times are expressed in GMT):
The primary goal of ElizabethWarrenWiki.org was to serve as a resource for people who don't have the time to search dozens of websites and blogs. So when I stumbled on this at HuffPo the other day, it was one of those moments. The accusation was about Republicans...
I haven't watched the video embedded at the bottom of this post in a long time. I saw it while doing some fix up at ElizabethWarrenWiki.org, on the Elizabeth Warren Refusal To Meet With Native Americans page. Every time I see progressives sing the praises about Warren,...
We are pleased to announce the launch of Elizabeth Warren Wiki (ElizabethWarrenWiki.org), the most comprehensive source of information and documentation with regard to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth A. Warren. The site originally was conceived, days before the 2012 election, as The Elizabeth Warren File, a place where...
Genealogist Megan Smolenyak is quoted in The Wall Street Journal article about common misperceptions about family lore, “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore. One of those common misperceptions, according to Smolenyak, is as follows: “Great grandma was a Cherokee.” Many people with high...
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