Re:Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
by Balgair on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:45AM
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And not just in the vein of the target language's politics. It's subtle, yet permissive.
For example: if you look at Japanese history[0], many of the atrocities[1] that were committed in the lead up to WW2 are outright omitted, linked to with less frequency that you'd expect, or downplayed. At least, as far as I think they should be included.
I'm not claiming to have a PhD in Japanese history, but I know a small bit about it, and it seems to me (and I can only speak for myself) that there is a distinct lack of 'bad' stuff about Japanese History in the English language Wikipedia.
For example: if you look at Japanese history[0], many of the atrocities[1] that were committed in the lead up to WW2 are outright omitted, linked to with less frequency that you'd expect, or downplayed. At least, as far as I think they should be included.
I'm not claiming to have a PhD in Japanese history, but I know a small bit about it, and it seems to me (and I can only speak for myself) that there is a distinct lack of 'bad' stuff about Japanese History in the English language Wikipedia.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Japanese_history
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre