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| ADL: Wikipedia bans several editors for spreading antisemitic rhetoric, misinformation on Gaza war |
| 2025-01-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] Wikipedia has banned several editors for using the platform to spread antisemitic rhetoric and misinformation about Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the Anti-Defamation League says. A thing that until now has not bothered Wikipedia management even a little. Curious, that. These users have spread “malicious, false and biased information about Zionism and Israel across the platform,” says the ADL.An arbitration committee for the collaborative online encyclopedia banned the users Iskandar323, Selfstudier, Nableezy, Levivich and Nishidani from the Israel-Palestine discussion for operating in bad faith, the watchdog says. Another editor, Ivana, was previously banned from all editing. Following the decision, “it is now imperative for Wikipedia to begin work immediately to undo the harm caused by these rogue but prolific editors who literally have wreaked havoc across the platform,” the ADL says. “As we have said before, Wikipedia needs to wake up to the reality that this is a systemic problem across the platform that needs immediate action. There is still a lot more that must be done to ensure that Wikipedia can live up to its policy around the encyclopedia holding a neutral point of view.” The ADL was labeled as “generally unreliable” regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Wikipedia’s editors in June. The organization charged that all of the banned users had taken part in a coordinated campaign to smear its credibility. Related: Wikipedia 01/11/2025 Meta orders removal of tampons in men's rooms amid Zuckerberg post-election shakeup: report Wikipedia 01/08/2025 Barge with Marine Le Pen on board capsizes in France Wikipedia 01/05/2025 'Shadows of October 7': Political calm in Israel threatens Netanyahu with an explosion |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 ADL's mission has diminished by politics and self-hate |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-01-20 19:00 |
| #1 I wonder if ADL didn't care until they themselves were slandered. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-01-20 18:55 |