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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

You can notice a bias towards the state media from pro-capitalist regimes from the above.

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[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This page in a nutshell: Any material added to Wikipedia must have been published previously by a reliable source. Editors may not add content solely because they believe it is true, nor delete content they believe to be untrue, unless they have verified beforehand with a reliable source.

Verifiability is as important as truth.

But reliable sources are biased!

From WP:BIASED (Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Biased or opinionated sources).

Wikipedia articles are required to present a neutral point of view. However, reliable sources are not required to be neutral, unbiased, or objective. Sometimes non-neutral sources are the best possible sources for supporting information about the different viewpoints held on a subject.

(Bolding mine)

But reliable sources are chosen by biased contributors!

OP attached to their comic repost RSP columns.

  • Deutsche Welle: Reliability was never discussed in an RFC. Anyone complaining here of bias does not acknowledge their possibility (if they are not banned) of making an RFC on it.
  • Voice of America: Discussed on RSN a few times. The last one is pretty interesting: Here
  • Xinhua: Discussed here. ITT: It's quite old, but Xinhua is very controversial.
  • Telesur: Discussed here around seven years ago. Quite conclusive, I would say.
[–] 1Malayali@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I think you may have misunderstood point of that image.

It not on the sources being biased(there are no unbiased sources), but noting the easily notable bias in the Wikipedia source selection, the preference for media funded by pro-capitalist regimes.

Do you see an issue in noting how Wikipedia has this bias, and going against the notion by some that it is unbiased or neutral?

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 43 points 1 day ago (7 children)

That's probably because most mass killings under capitalist regimes are just generally called "mass killings". They are your regular, run of the mill mass killings that aren't really newsworthy and that we are accustomed to.

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