• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    702·
    11 months ago

    My workplace got a “coronavirus” chat on the corporate chat server. And the known “conspiracy theorist” guy on my team posted a link to some article on some total misinformation mill masquerading as a news source.

    I looked up the name of the source on Wikipedia, which said it was a total misinformation mill.

    So I linked to the Wikipedia article in the chat.

    I work at a fairly big and diverse company, so of course there was more than one conspiracy guy there. It was really surreal watching people who literally think all governments are run by a secret cabal of Democrat extraterrestrial pedophile child-adrenaline junkies attack the trustworthiness of Wikipedia.

    Edit: I’d forgotten the name of the “misinformation mill” that originally started that shit storm in the work chat, but I went back and looked it up. It was Project Veritas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

      • SeaJ@lemm.ee
        9·
        11 months ago

        They still exist. They just do not have James O’Keefe who was shit canned.

        • VonCesaw@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          Please let me live in the world where they were internationally disgraced and every pundit that used them as a resource equally disgraced

    • explodicle@local106.comEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      99% of people bashing Wikipedia do so because they read that they’re delusional about something.

      Source: have read >100 Wikipedia bashings that answered follow-up questions.