Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Wikipedia is wonderful… for most things.
The main demographic contributing to and editing English Wikipedia are young, highly educated white men from western countries. It will portray on average the bias that most of these people espouse. So it will have racist bias, misogynistic bias and pro-western bias.
That said, it’s still probably less misogynistic and less racist and less pro-western than your average outlet, because it filters out some of the most blatant false narratives and propaganda from conservative sources such as FOX.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
comfy@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
When one takes a step back, it’s obvious that our own societies have their own ingrained systemic biases. All our journalists and other writers will have biases that they and us might not even notice are biases, since we believe they’re just fact.
AI datasets have run into this problem plenty of times, for example when government regulation has told insurance companies not to use factors like ethnicity or races in certain calculations, but it turns out that some ended up indirectly doing it anyway since postal codes approximated race in many regions. There are layers to systemic biases.
scholar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s why I only get my information from lemmy comments
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I only get my information from Hexbear comrades who share links ;)