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by voldacar 287 days ago
A quantitative look which might interest you:

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...

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> Results show a mild to moderate tendency in Wikipedia articles to associate public figures ideologically aligned right-of-center with more negative sentiment than public figures ideologically aligned left-of-center

It could be that politicians right of center have a tendency to do things which merit negative sentiment slightly more often than politicians left of center. It begs the question to call this bias.

The article address this very criticism