oatmeal<p>Quoting Jimmy Wales: “Every time Elon tweets his nonsense, we get a surge in donations, and no wonder, Wikipedia is the antidote to his brand of sloppy misinformation, and the public knows it.”</p><p>He clearly doesn't read the Hebrew [Zionist] Wikipedia, which is exacly that, but nontheless. This, for example, will sound familiar to anyone who's been involved in editing the Hebrew Wikipedia:</p><p>In early 2024, Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee conducted an investigation that resulted in three editors being banned from the platform for their involvement in a pro-Israel campaign. According to the article, this coordinated effort began shortly after October 7, when an editor who had previously been removed from Wikipedia started emailing others with instructions to modify Gaza war-related pages, including articles about crimes against Israel, human shields, and the 2001 Beit Rima raid in the West Bank. On October 16, one of these editors sent an email—which was reviewed by Bloomberg News—urging colleagues working on Palestine-Israel articles to vote against an article that described the Gaza war as a "genocide" started by Israel. The email explicitly called for the article to be "deleted or merged" while labeling the page's editors as "propagandists" and describing the article itself as "ridiculous."</p><p><a href="https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/2025/03/07/wikipedia-roiled-with-internal-strife-overpage-editsabout-the-middle-east/81935309007/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eu.detroitnews.com/story/busin</span><span class="invisible">ess/2025/03/07/wikipedia-roiled-with-internal-strife-overpage-editsabout-the-middle-east/81935309007/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NeoNazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazism</span></a></p>