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by sukilot 2176 days ago
It's absurd to say Wikipedia is unbiased, because bias is endorsed by Wikipedia's officially stated policy! The only requirement is that the bias is copied from an off-site source.

Wikipedia endorses any well-established" news site, with no requirements that those sites cite their sources.

Wikipedia rules require peer review for academic research that is cited, but not for private commercial news operations nor NPR.

And despite how weak Wikipedia's rules are, enforcement of those rules is a farce. Anything remotely questionable is controlled by who ever manages to win control of the page, leading to articles that are mer copies of press releases and corporate websites.

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