Dan Gillmor on Nostr: I had no idea Wikipedia allowed editors to use the Heritage Foundation's extremist ...
I had no idea Wikipedia allowed editors to use the Heritage Foundation's extremist garbage-spewing as a trustworthy source in a journalistic sense. So it's gratifying to see that Wikipedia is taking steps to forbid editors from citing it as evidence of anything.
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