Summary
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, plans to use facial recognition and hacked data to identify Wikipedia editors it alleges are promoting antisemitism, according to leaked documents.
The group’s proposed tactics include fake accounts and tracking links, raising privacy concerns among Wikipedia contributors.
This effort, part of Heritage’s Project Esther, follows controversies over Wikipedia’s handling of Israel-related topics, such as labeling the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) “unreliable.”
Critics warn this campaign to target editors could violate Wikipedia’s rules and escalate tensions over bias accusations.
Wikipedia is probably the only thing that has survived rounds and rounds of enshitification. Of course they want to destroy it. The fucks are psychopathic, and seriously, if Wikipedia caves I will probably be radicalized.
THIS is the line for you? In spite of everything else?
Not everyone wants to feel like they need to take violent extremist action to fight back against them. What actions have you taken to fight back?
Where did you get violent extremism from? That’s not radicalization. Though some people who are radicalized choose to incorporate violence as part of direct action it is extremely rare.
Do some mutual aid for starters. (This is what I’ve done, among other things, i will not elaborate.)
If you want to fight back on this particular issue and have tech skills you can run counter-intel and expose fashy heritage foundation boys or you could do other methods like decoy or feed false identifying info.
I’m happy anyone gets motivated to take action. Just a little surprised that it startes with wikipedia editors and not, just for example, palestine or women’s bodily autonomy.
Wikipedia for radicalization
Cool, you failed to read the second sentence. That article on mutual aid is fucking insane and paints an idiotic picture on mutual aide. The taliban and religious charity are simply not mutual aid groups, what the fuck. Whole page feels like it was written by a fox news intern…
I’ll give ya so much as we have two interpretations i guess. Mine aligned better with the article on “Radical Politics”.
Anyone reading in the future just note the timestamp.