• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I do not need to read your writeup to know that this information comes from sources other than Wikipedia. It doesn’t matter what it acknowledges about “the vast majority of articles,” because any one article, this one included, can be an exception.

    I unfortunately can’t read Russian so I can’t really tell what it says.

    How do you not know about Google Translate at this point? Or is that full of “Western bias” too?

    What source would you even trust?

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      3 months ago

      My point is that there aren’t many sources to trust for now, not from one side and not from the other, because of the ongoing conflict and information war. You can’t trust the New York Times in the same way you probably wouldn’t trust Russia Today.

      If you saw a collectively edited article related to the Ukrainian War, edited primarily by Russian men, using Russian sources (whether state or private), would you trust it? Would you trust a collectively edited article on Taiwan edited primarily by Chinese men using primarily Chinese sources (whether state or private)? If the answer is yes I’ll shut up, if the answer is no, then why do you do it with Wikipedia?

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        3 months ago

        That’s not an answer- who do you trust on this subject? Or is everyone lying? Because it’s either true or it isn’t.

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          3 months ago

          I don’t trust anyone, surely everyone is lying. Both sides have a very strong interest on propagating opposite points of view. Framing Russia as the saviours of the Russian population in Crimea and Donetsk against Ukronazis is very beneficial to Russia, framing Russia as a war criminal country kidnapping children is very beneficial to NATO.

          Remember Nayirah’s testimony? Remember the WMDs in Iraq?