Wikipedia Fights Russia Using Mainstream Media Hoaxes in Articles

Wikipedia is another Western propaganda outlet that any sensible country would ban outright.

Reuters:

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove information related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that people have a right to know the facts of the war.

A Moscow court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 5 million roubles ($88,000) for refusing to remove what it termed disinformation from Russian-language Wikipedia articles on the war including “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine”, “War Crimes during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine” and “Massacre in Bucha”.

Do they have an entry for all of these war crimes committed by the Ukrainians against rando other Ukrainians?

Maybe they’re waiting for it to get fact-checked by Snopes first?

“This decision implies that well-sourced, verified knowledge on Wikipedia that is inconsistent with Russian government accounts constitutes disinformation,” Stephen LaPorte, Associate General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation, said in a statement.

Wikipedia, which says it offers “the second draft of history”, is one of the few remaining major fact-checked Russian-language sources of information for Russians after a crackdown on media in Moscow.

“The government is targeting information that is vital to people’s lives in a time of crisis,” LaPorte said. “We urge the court to reconsider in favor of everyone’s rights to knowledge access and free expression.”

The Moscow court argued that what it cast as the disinformation on Wikipedia posed a risk to public order in Russia and that the Foundation, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California, was operating inside Russia.

The Foundation was prosecuted under a law about the failure to delete banned information. The case was brought by Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wikipedia.

The Wikipedia appeal, which was filed on June 6 with details released on Monday, argues that removing information is a violation of human rights. It said Russia had no jurisdiction over the Wikimedia Foundation, which was globally available in over 300 languages.

The Bucha massacre was a staged hoax by Ukrainians. As was the Mariupol theatre bombing. As was the Donbass train station bombing.

You wonder why they stopped talking about them, no?

It’s because people proved they were hoaxes, so the media dumped them.

But Wikipedia’s system allows proved hoaxes to remain online, as long as they use an old source citing the scam.

Someone should get “electric floors” and “cage with the bear and eagle” and “the wall of eyes” into the Holocaust Wikipedia page. I don’t think their rules allow them to delete those things.