Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality
The culture wars are coming for the best utopian project of the early internet. Can it survive the informational anarchy that’s disrupted the rest of media?
by Alexis C. Madrigal
Aug 07, 2018
4 minutes
The ever-widening maelstrom surrounding tweets by Sarah Jeong, the latest hire by the New York Times editorial board, may consume all the atoms in the known universe, and as Wikipedia is of this world, it, too, must be a place to immortalize (or attempt to immortalize) Jeong as racist.
Over the years, Jeong has angrily and colorfully tweeted hundreds of times about her (“”; “”). After her hiring, these tweets were by right-wing media as proof of her “racism.” The battle over including these tweets in her has been the subject of a brutal edit war, which about cow-tipping, hummus, and Nikola Tesla.
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