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by drysine 49 days ago
The situation may very well be reverse - "West" and the Ukraine manipulate content of the Wikipedia articles and ordinary Russians who see that try to make the articles more balanced.

Take a look at this article, for example: "Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war"[0].

It retranslates Ukrainian propaganda about 20 thousand children in the first sentence, but buries the objective fact that the Ukraine only produced the list of 339 children in the section "Russian reaction".

I'd wager that only 5% of readers would read past the summary and that most of them will just skip the section with documentation of "Russian propaganda".

I haven't bothered to try, but good luck trying to integrate this fact into the summary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abductions_in_the_Russo-...