Wikipedias un-reliable sources, Trump got crime trend correct and other commentary

Wikipedia users “who accessed the ‘List of executive branch czars’ article on July 24” would’ve seen Kamala Harris listed, reports Ashley Rindsberg at Pirate Wires.But after that date, the list had “no mention of Harris at all.” Behind that change is the way the site classifies “outright leftist or socialist outlets” as mainstream sources while “conservative outlets like Fox News” are rated unreliable.“Reducing our understanding of knowledge to assertions made by a small subset of supposedly ‘reliable sources’” adds “bias into the encyclopedia.”“Wikipedia is a testament to the limitless power of collaboration and an odds-defying wonder of human achievement.”But it may be “fated to achieve exactly the opposite of what its founders intended.”ABC moderator David Muir’s claimed, in the Trump-Harris debate, “The FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country,” stats Trump retorted are “a fraud.”The Washington Examiner’s editorial board fact-checks: New data from The Bureau of Justice Statistics last week “show Trump is right about crime and Muir is wrong.”Under President Biden, the FBI made the process for how “local law enforcement agencies report crime to the bureau ..

.more complicated and burdensome,” so now “some of the largest and most troublesome cities [are] failing to report at all.”“The DOJ, however, did not change its methodology,” and per its latest numbers, “crime is much higher under the Biden-Harris administration than it was during [Trump’s] presidency.” Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.

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