Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable. MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors. Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront. The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources" New from me on Substack: [substack.com/home/post/p-...](
Source Wars and Bespoke Realities
Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth
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Source Wars and Bespoke Realities
Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth
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We did a birthday party for our newly 9yo this weekend. She is super into Kuromi. She picked out my nails, and art-directed our outfits. 🖤 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreihcpkwc4dmylhqg7nddcx7ab3vmgvrfog4o6yqsgssddmvgpwhe7y https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiaxd6m2fnjqnjt4bzfzy2xkkwqqia3zgvii6zbm5qeea34yeb64ha
New from me on Substack: “Source Wars and Bespoke Realities: Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth” I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreif26x32mjv5ja4xcap4huxmw44zxj2rknchyk4kv25yk5wdr7xtne
Just finished 5 cities in 6 days. I really appreciated Munich. Photo from Mon night, outside the building where part of Czechoslovakia was signed away. I got to visit the Documentation Center, which had an exhibit that focused in part on the role propaganda and appeasement played in Hitler’s rise. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreic74n5sipkmwyd3gawjfmh4gc44weozoxct22luwx5kd7nkvgbozm
The New York Times won’t use the word but we should because it’s obvious: right wing political influencers aren’t just ‘close to’ the administration — they are its propagandists in the most literal sense of that word. They financially benefit from access & loyalty. [www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...](
Conservative Media Picks an Epstein Story Line and Sticks to It
Right-wing outlets have focused on a single redacted name in the 23,000 pages of correspondence related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released on We...
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Conservative Media Picks an Epstein Story Line and Sticks to It
Right-wing outlets have focused on a single redacted name in the 23,000 pages of correspondence related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released on We...
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I wrote ab how the antivax movement ascended to power, and now directs govt research funding — enabling it both to manufacture “findings” and to defund actual independent research. This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social. RE:
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Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
2. How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance by @noupside.bsky.social. https://www.techpolicy.press...
New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines. [www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...](
The Atlantic
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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The Atlantic
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
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"It's just some people online" was the phrase that I got from the CDC after presenting as a pro-vax parent activist 10 yrs ago on how we were trying to build a counter-movement online but had no resources. This is an analysis we published in Wired, that later became the cover of The Economist. 1/2 RE:
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social)
I started studying the anti-vaccine movement more than fifteen years ago along with one of my colleagues, Dr. Kacey Ernst. It was clear to us even ...
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Katherine Boyle is a Silicon Valley caricature at this point. I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it. https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifnn7bdb2wyk5hpzxy67ati3ye5t2q5hzbg3satkcmgucwlq3l6fy
Truth Social now has its own custom Perplexity AI search that is having some real struggles with cognitive dissonance. It knows the facts — the election wasn’t stolen! Vaccines don’t cause autism! But it ALSO seems to have had its sources constrained to right wing crank media 🫠 Poor bot… 1/2 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreidqkupe3e4ol3ytmz7mka72myxazms6ls4tqonfzotcosexa4q2sq https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreiffuqvhkpcdalheh6t6wazp3vq2lnjxuypjgvyhzoe2bpjfmweyye https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n&cid=bafkreifwpf4lnwm22nkmeeermdu5y5ve33jmft6lx5xzlcepxipq2y3vhy