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Fast Forward Wikipedia’s operator rejects Jewish groups’ call to override editors on ADL trustworthiness
More than 40 Jewish groups told the Wikimedia Foundation that the decision to label the Anti-Defamation League “unreliable” makes the Jewish community less safe
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Opinion ‘Does anybody question the NAACP?’: The ADL head thinks Wikipedia is biased. Is he right?
Jonathan Greenblatt speaks out over the site’s controversial decision to question his organization's reliability as a source
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Opinion Wikipedia called the ADL ‘unreliable.’ It’s a wake-up call the civil rights organization badly needs
The designation reveals long-standing contradictions in one of the most storied American civil rights organizations
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Fast Forward ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism
Wikipedia editors argued that ADL tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism
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News Conservative Israeli think tank uses fake accounts to skew Wikipedia
Kohelet Policy Forum worker secretly operated five 'sock puppet' accounts, skewing debates and articles about Israel’s judicial overhaul and other contentious issues
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Opinion To fix Wikipedia’s Holocaust denial, we must start by naming names
Anonymity on the do-it-yourself encyclopedia fuels constant misinformation
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Opinion The shocking truth about Wikipedia’s Holocaust disinformation
Why Wikipedia cannot be trusted: It repeatedly allows rogue editors to rewrite Holocaust history and make Jews out to be the bad guys
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Fast Forward Wikipedia disciplines editors in Holocaust distortion dispute but sidesteps debate over Polish complicity
The online encyclopedia didn’t take a position on the underlying dispute over Polish antisemitism and complicity with the Nazis, instead focused on whether editors adhered to the community’s code of conduct
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