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While the Times of India interview amplifies Wikipedia’s neutrality claims, documented editing practices reveal how approved sources, enforced consensus, and editorial privilege restrict debate, marginalise dissenting voices, and shape coverage of India-related and Hindu-focused issues.

The deliberate distortion of 'The Bengal Files' on Wikipedia is based on movie reviews (which are opinion pieces and not fact-based news articles) by what the free encyclopedia classifies as 'reliable sources/perennial sources.'

The order was passed by Justice Subramonium Prasad in response to a plea filed by ANI Media Pvt Ltd, saying that its Wikipedia page hosted on the platform contains false and defamatory content damaging its reputation.

During a TED talk in August 2021, Katherine Maher revealed that the information disseminated through Wikipedia is not based on truth. She even dubbed truth as a 'distraction.'

According to Pirate Wires, 'The Movement Strategy' was launched in 2017 to veer Wikipedia into a 'hyper-centralised space of top-down justice activism and advocacy' by 2030.

While Wikipedia claims that everyone is free to edit, the truth is that there are only a handful of people who have the ultimate say in what content is added and what isn’t.

The government pointed out that a select editorial group has control and also questioned why Wikipedia should not be treated as a publisher, a demand OpIndia raised recently.

According to Pirate Wires, the Wikipedia editors avoided detection by working on articles in small groups and aiding one another in case of pushback from editors not associated with 'Tech for Palestine'.

Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered Wikipedia to take down a page on the ongoing defamation case filed by ANI against the online encyclopaedia

OpIndia research on Wikipedia focuses on its left bias and how it pays editors and funds dubious anti-India orgs