An attack in order ofElon Musk against Wikipedia. At the origin of this confrontation, this August 8, Larry Sanger, co -founder of the online encyclopedia, directly addressed to the boss of the X platform: “As a critical co -founder of Wikipedia, I find the influence of Wikipedia on community notes” – THE Collaborative system allowing users to add contextual and factual information to clarify or qualify tweets.
A few hours later, the boss of X replied. “I agree that Wikipedia cannot be used as a final source for community notes, because editorial control is extremely biased on the left (and nihilist in my opinion)”launched the former adviser to Donald Trump and Dogeyer director, in a message causing more than 100,000 “likes”. And add: “The real source material, and not derived, is much more important”.
This is not the first time that Elon Musk has accused the online encyclopedia, created in 2001, of lacking political neutrality. Last December, he called his subscribers, on X, to stop their donations to the platform: “Stop giving Wokepedia until they restore balance in their editorial authority”. The call to boycott was already in a broader criticism formulated by the entrepreneur against Wikipedia, to whom he accuses of promoting a progressive agenda and of disseminating erroneous information.
Wikipedia’s lack of neutrality
In France, the journalist and essayist Victor Lefèvre, co -author of The hidden side of Wikipedia: survey of the drifts of the free encyclopediapointed out the lack of reliability of the platform on the pages linked to recent news. “The Wikipedia building is based on the principle of sources, more precisely on so -called” reliable “sources. However, in terms of press sources, everything is not worth on Wikipedia. To summarize, all that is to the right of Figaro is considered to be “extreme right source”, to which it is not recommended to use “, He had explained to the Tangwall Campagin.
“At the other end of the spectrum, militant sites and engaged on the left (not to say more), such as Streetpress, Acrimed or Stop on images are considered as” reliable secondary sources “, without the community judging useful to highlight their ideological bias”had continued the author. Before assembling: “This is one two weights, two obvious measures, which calls into question one of the founding principles of the online encyclopedia, namely the neutrality from the point of view”.
