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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.ko4abp.com 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

This is coming from Glenn Greenwald, a known Putin shill, so all this could mean is the efforts to maintain truth on Wikipedia, since Ruzzia and her allies worldwide (including the American Republican party, or at least the 'MAGA' portion) constantly seek to obfuscate the truth and alter articles critical of them, their positions, their narratives.

Now I'm not saying there isn't a shred of truth, there usually is with shills like Greenwald, so I'm sure the US and their allies are actively involved in doing something similar, but nobody lies like the current Ruzzian regime and their allies, their people are so misinformed and propagandized that they wouldn't know the truth if it smacked them over the head.

Some sources to back up my point:

https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-russia-ukraine-propaganda-suspicious-edits-1849673060

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/russia-edits-mh17-wikipedia-article

https://www.iflscience.com/woman-writes-fake-russian-history-on-wikipedia-for-over-a-decade-before-being-caught-64245

https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/2967/wikipedia-russian-government-edits

https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/wikipedia-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-edits-kyiv-kiev.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1090279187/russia-wikipedia-fine

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/03/03/wikimedia-foundation-stands-with-communities-defending-free-knowledge/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22973293/wikipedia-editor-russia-belarus-ukraine

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow so both Ruzzia and Amerikkka edit Wikipedia for propaganda purposes. 🤯

[–] 6jarjar6@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

American intelligence agencies are just fighting back with truth not propaganda 😉

[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Haha, very true patriot! 🦅 🦅

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