{"id":1248324,"date":"2022-01-27T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248324"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:09:58","slug":"did-steven-crowder-just-expose-wikipedias-left-wing-bias-watch-his-test-and-judge-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-steven-crowder-just-expose-wikipedias-left-wing-bias-watch-his-test-and-judge-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Steven Crowder Just Expose Wikipedia\u2019s Left-Wing Bias? Watch His Test And Judge For Yourself."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdid-steven-crowder-just-expose-wikipedias-left-wing-bias-watch-his-test-and-judge-for-yourself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1248324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Steven Crowder\u2019s latest video takes a deep dive into the alleged left-wing bias of Wikipedia, the world\u2019s most popular crowdsourced encyclopedia. While Wikipedia has an article on virtually everything under the sun, Crowder \u2014 like many other conservatives \u2014 has long suspected that it shields readers from the true set of facts, hiding ones that run contrary to progressive narratives on key social issues.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than speculate, Crowder devised a simple hypothesis and test, aiming to see which edits Wikipedia allows on certain issues and which ones they reject. Crowder took the time to edit articles with factual statements and unbiased sources. He then waited for Wikipedia\u2019s response, even tallying up whether \u201ctruth\u201d or Wikipedia won out the day. His latest episode of \u201cLouder with Crowder\u201d claims to \u201cprove\u201d that Wikipedia is biased. The results seem to show that the truth does not always win out on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>Crowder lumped Wikipedia in with \u201cBig Tech,\u201d alleging, \u201cAs it turns out \u2014 and this should come as no surprise to anyone who knows even a little bit about how Big Tech operates \u2014 Wikipedia is full of bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime after time, article after article, we decided to go in and add, edit, or clarify information with our own account,\u201d he added. \u201cWe didn\u2019t go in and say anything outlandish (as I once decided to do while bored out of my mind). Our team cited sources, provided verifiable information, or simply attempted to remove overtly biased opinions (in some cases, purely personal opinions). Wikipedia did not approve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crowder\u2019s team said they made their edits based on what they thought would comply with Wikipedia\u2019s \u201cneutrality test,\u201d adding that the edits avoided opinion, unreliable sources, or sketchy data. Still, Wikipedia shot down their edits each time.<\/p>\n<p>On entries regarding child transgender hormone therapy, the Texas heartbeat abortion law, and even the data regarding anti-Asian history \u2014 Wikipedia editors appear to have denied all of Crowder\u2019s edits \u2014 allowing only one side of the argument to come into fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s are things left-wing tech giants don\u2019t approve of they\u2019re facts, objective truth, and anything that doesn\u2019t purposefully toe the party line,\u201d Crowder claimed. \u201cThe \u2018reasoning\u2019 provided for negating our edits was ignorant, convoluted, and sometimes completely non-existent! The left need not have good reasons to silence opposing views, though. And if they have reasons at all, they need not explain themselves to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, Crowder was left wondering why Thomas Sowell \u2014 a world-renowned economist \u2014 was not a reliable source under Wikipedia\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>In one entry about minimum wage, Crowder noted that the article was \u201cextremely biased\u201d in favor of the liberal persuasion of Paul Krugman. The New York Times economist was listed as an expert, something that Crowder said was not a problem in and of itself. The problem, according to Crowder, was that the column relied solely on Krugman\u2019s point of view to craft the \u201ctruth\u201d about minimum wage, which presented the view from only one side of the aisle:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Wikipedia page obviously favors increasing the minimum wage. Before our edit, this is what it said, \u2018According to economist Paul Krugman\u2019 \u2014 I just threw up in my mouth a little \u2014 \u2018the great preponderance of evidence indicates that there is no negative impact to employment from moderate increases on mimunum wage.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now here\u2019s the thing, Paul Krugman writes. He\u2019s an economist. I don\u2019t know much he\u2019s helped the economy or run a business but\u2026there\u2019s no right-leaning source offering a counter-balancing opinion. If this is going to be the number one research portal in the world, 18 billion page views per month, all we need to see is a counterbalance, which they claim in their own neutrality guidelines, right it\u2019s supposed to be neutral?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, in order to make it neutral and balanced, Crowder and his colleague added a quote from Hoover Institute fellow and conservative Sowell. That quote said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUnfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker\u2019s productivity worth that amount\u2014and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be hard to dispute the idea that there\u2019s a more qualified economist in the world today than Thomas Sowell. He\u2019s certainly up there, all of his peers respect him and he\u2019s done a lot of work on the minimum wage issue,\u201d Crowder noted.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, despite his qualifications, the Sowell quote was removed within a day because, according to Wikipedia\u2019s editors, \u201cthe source was unreliable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crowder\u2019s video appears to confirm the co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger\u2019s belief that Wikipedia was pushing \u201cpropaganda\u201d because<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Crowder\u2019s latest video takes a deep dive into the alleged left-wing bias of Wikipedia, the world\u2019s most popular crowdsourced encyclopedia. While Wikipedia has an article on virtually everything under the sun, Crowder \u2014 like many other conservatives \u2014 has long suspected that it shields readers from the true set of facts, hiding ones that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}