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It just isn't easy at all. If someone editorializes a Wikipedia article, they can:
You could write an entire Wikipedia article on Adolf Hitler with perfectly cited sources, which never mentions the genocide, the warmongering, that he lost the war etc..
You can use Wikipedia as an entrypoint for research, but you have to actually read the sources and find additional sources, independently from that.
You could, but it would be reverted within 24 hours.
And by hours I mean minutes.
Perhaps even seconds if it's during CET waking hours.
It depends al lot in the subject and the amount of people with some knowledge about it. About hitler it would last only a very short time, but there have been prank pages that survived for months
True. I was thinking about the Hitler one in particular, as I'm sure someone would quickly notice such an extensive edit on such a notable topic.
In fact, I wonder if there are bots or something for detecting these edits...
But by that time, the network had been active for almost a decade and had been able to make some considerable changes to the public record.
Plenty of examples like this.
Wikipedia is manipulated garbage on anything with political relevance.
IDK why people keep defending it.
I would earnestly invite you to go create an account, and earnestly attempt to create disinformation. Choose a really subtle one, not a blatant one like your example. Be devious, take your time, keep trying. I think you'll be surprised.
I've tried to create an account to correct misinformation, but it turned out a clique of editors had the article locked down so they'd just revert any changes to it, they then proceeded to dox me.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires
Plenty of examples like this.
Wikipedia is manipulated garbage on anything with political relevance.
IDK why people keep defending it.
i saw that on certain entries of wikipedia. around certain biological topics, or stem topics.