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by betwills 1040 days ago
Justapedia is not political, we state the facts, but keep in mind, we imported 6.5+ million articles from Wikipedia, so there is work to be done. As a new encyclopedia, it will take time to build our community of editors. It is quite clear that our mission is to eliminate the weaponization of encyclopedias, expose journalistic opinion for what it is, and make our focus pragmatic and factual, which is what Wikipedia is supposed to be doing. Most of their edits are at the dramah boards, user talk pages and at their "unapproved" perennial sources noticeboard where they downgrade perfectly good sources because of their own systemic biases.

Justapedia believes in "context matters", we support "truth", and the inclusion of all significant views (diversity). Our readers will be well-informed to make their own decisions. An encyclopedia is not supposed to make decisions for them.

As for journalistic opinion and mainstream media, read CJR's 4-part review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p... Science even sees the politicization in mainstream: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190813130431.h...