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Elon Musk launches encyclopedia ‘fact-checked’ by AI and aligning with rightwing views
(www.theguardian.com)
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By definition, encyclopedias are neutral and non-biased, given they contain facts, not opinions. This is propaganda.
While that is idealy true, the reality of maintaining an ecyclopedia is not always so black and white.
For example, Wikipedia needs to make decisions like whether to call Scientology a religion or a cult, or whether to call homeopathy medicin or pseudo-science. These are value judgements based on criticism to the subject matter and are not fully objective. But they are still important to allow people to get a full picture on a topic.
The alternative would be to relegate criticism on a topic to the criticism section, which runs the risks of giving certain ideas a false sense of legitimacy.
If I had to make a guess, part of the reason why Musk has such an issue with Wikipedia is because they actually have the policy to name criticism up front.
Whether to called homeopathy medicine or pseudoscience is absolutely NOT a value judgement