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XXfactor BITWISE DECODING THE TECH WORLD. FEB. 5 2015 12:04 PM WHAT WOMEN REALLY THINK MARCH 6 2015 1:15 PMM The Wikipedia Ouroboros On Wikipedia, Gamergate he online encyclopedia chews up and spits out ad facts, and its own policies are letting it eoo Refuses to Die 927 336 218 By Amanda Marcotte By David Auerbach Both articles from Slate 20 15 221 The Internet has finally eaten itself Wikipedia still has some serious problems handling controversial topics. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos via NASA, Creative Commons. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images ast week, the Internet finally ate itself a Wikipedia disciplinary case centered around Gamergate had concluded with the scandalous banning of feminist editors, even though the case hadn't A Wikipedia article misreported that As a media phenomenon, Gamergate may have died out a few months ago, but that doesn't mean the die-hard Gamergaters have gone away. Lauren Williams at ThinkProgress has written managed to get five Wikipedia editors banned or restricted from editing Wikipedia- for tweaking the Wikipedia pages of feminist critics and developers to erase slander hat anti-feminists were trying to pass off as factual information n in-depth investigation of how Gamergaters have inished and nobody had been bann correct. Scandal usually travels faster than truth, but this time it fully lapped the facts. How did this temporal paradox come to pass? Yet by the rules of Wikipedia, the page was Hey Amanda Marcotte, next time you try doing journalism maybe try and fact-check it, perhaps with the article on the left, posted a month before on the very same site you wrote yours on Slate), and talking about the very same misinformation that was spread about "five feminist editors" getting banned from Wikipedia when no such thing ocurred. Maybe then we could trust the rest of the stuff you preach about in the rest of your article

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Tiber Septim

Mar 09, 2015 at 10:25AM EDT

Its not the first time amanda marcotte says shit, remember that case in a university that a woman accused some football players of raping her in a party in whitch the most of the football team was. After the woman accused the players, marcotte wrote an article saying that they should arrest the players immediately without a trial, And decrying anyone that wanted the players to have a fair trial as "rape enablers". but in the end the 5 different dna samples found on the womans body didnt match ANY of the 42 players who where at the party, and the woman confessed she made a false rape claim.

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