Wikipedia tries to alter 'Recession' page to favor Biden Newspeak
In another attempted Orwellian reform, Wikipedia editors last week repeatedly tried to edit the site’s “Recession” page to reflect the Biden administration’s most recent definition.
In anticipation of Thursday’s announcement that the US GDP has declined for the second consecutive quarter – the widely accepted definition of “recession” – the Biden administration argued in recent weeks that there is no agreed-upon definition.
“While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” said the White House in a July 21st blog post. “Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes.”
With this, the White House was able to conclude that there would not be a recession.
“Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession.”
This enabled Biden to deny the existence of a recession and instead call it a “transition.”
“We are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure,” the White House occupant said in a statement after the GDP report was released.
Since then, Wikipedia’s "Recession” page was edited over 41 times to alter its definition, which read:
“While national definitions may vary, most commentators and analysts use, as a practical definition of recession, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country’s real (inflation adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP).”
That definition was then edited multiple times by various editors, prompting a Wikipedia administrator named “Anarchyte” to lock any further edits by unregistered users until early August. One of the page’s most prominent editors, named “Soibangla”, repeatedly deleted the accepted definition of “recession” to favor the White House’s post.
So far, the original definition remains on the site, though the article makes a point of saying that the United States does not accept the definition.
The mainstream media dutifully canceled the recession following the Biden administration’s re-definition, as reported by America’s Frontline News.
This is not the first time Wikipedia has tried to alter facts to accommodate Left-wing and globalist ideologies.
Last year, Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger slammed the company for its bias, saying that “Wikipedia openly repudiates neutrality,” and is “shamelessly hypocritical in how it continues to pay lip service to its ‘neutral point of view’ policy.” He added that the site’s “articles emerge more as propaganda than as reference material.”
“In short, and with few exceptions, only globalist, progressive mainstream sources — and sources friendly to globalist progressivism — are permitted,” Sanger wrote in the blog post.
This was reportedly corroborated by political commentator Steven Crowder, who devised an experiment earlier this year to determine if Wikipedia deliberately skews facts to fit a narrative. As part of the experiment, Crowder’s team submitted edits to hot-button issues such as minimum wage, which showed only one economist’s opinion, who argued in favor of the Left-wing narrative. When Crowder added dissenting quotes from conservative world-class economist Thomas Sowell, the edits were rejected every time because “the source was unreliable.”
