The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
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All fascist movements seek to control access to information.
All hierarchies depend on chokepoints on information.
Every form of systemic bigotry relies on ignorance.
You can't create a Greater Fool economy without information asymmetry.
The war on expertise has an agenda.
1. Ending democracy
2 Entrenching oligarchy
3. Undermining education. Every wannabe feudal lordling needs an illiterate peasantry
4. Enacting regressive policies
5. Enriching the already rich. -
@molly0xfff Because it has become so biased to the left on any political or generally controversial topic that even its creator says it can no longer be trusted?
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@molly0xfff you voice them yourself?! Whoa!
Sadly I can't stand the fake-robo voices (at least most of em), so I finally can listen to some news-posts
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@bison I do! I hate the robo-voices too, they’re too uncanny.
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@bontchev you should probably read the linked article
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@molly0xfff that’s really cool. I had totally assumed it was a robot-voice reading because the UX matches what many big name publishers are doing. Might be worth calling that out in the caption underneath.
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@dc good idea!
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@molly0xfff Thanks for mentioning this, subscribed! Seems you’ve been doing the recorded versions since Nov 2023. Did I skip the audio player without realising it every time?! Maybe it needs more visual differentiation, I’m used to these inline players being some 3rd party TTS widget so I must naturally scroll straight past. Could make the footer text more prominent + add a podcast icon (does a free one exist or does everyone just use Apple’s?)
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@molly0xfff Hi Molly.
I'm curious: Do lies of omission count as lies (or misinformation, of whatever term we're all using at the moment)?
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@Octale I imagine it would depend on the context
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