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Home Front: Politix
Wikipedia says Hunter Biden scandal 'DEBUNKED'
2020-10-22
[RT] Allegations of corruption against ex-Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
and his son Hunter have apparently been "debunked" and are merely a "conspiracy theory" according to Wikipedia, where editors are battling over the terms.
Hunter Biden was the subject of an explosive report last week as the New York Post published emails alleging that he involved his father in dodgy business dealings in Ukraine and China.

While the story is still unfolding, the Wikipedia page for Hunter Biden simply states that "he and his father have been the subjects of debunked right-wing conspiracy theories pushed by [President] Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
and his allies." The curious framing was highlighted by conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter on Tuesday.

Eight sources are listed for this one sentence, intending to support the view that any accusations of corruption against the Democratic presidential candidate and his son have already been proven false. In recent days, Wikipedia editors have been engaged in regular spats about the inclusion of the word "debunked."

The eighth source was added on Sunday by a frequent contributor to Biden’s son’s page, whose username is ’Soibangla’. A regular editor of American political topics on Wikipedia, Soibangla was previously found tweaking pedophile sex-trafficker Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened...
’s page, specifically to note that there is "no evidence" that he and former President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
were "friends" — despite the ex-commander-in-chief traveling on the disgraced financier’s plane 26 times, according to flight logs.

Curiously, the same Soibangla is one of the top authors on a new Wikipedia page titled, ’Biden—Ukraine conspiracy theory’. The page was created on October 15, the day after the Post published Hunter’s alleged email history. The article calls the controversy "a series of false allegations" and references an almost identical list of eight sources to back it up.

A war over Hunter Biden’s page has been raging since December 2019, when the word ’debunked’ was initially added in reference to the scandal involving the former VP’s role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who said he was investigating the Burisma gas company where Hunter sat on the board.
Posted by:Fred

#13  Any opinion topics, especially hot topics and people biographies, should be viewed with skepticism.

I'd like to see the John Wayne wiki from 5 years ago compared to today.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-10-22 22:00  

#12  I mostly check anime info and movies on it. Sometimes basic info. Beyond that, no.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-10-22 19:24  

#11  Their tech staff is quite good - at least if you looking up a new subject.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-22 16:20  

#10  Wikipedia has had 'volunteer' editors (probably wearing pajamas in a basement somewhere) for some time that diligently monitor their respective interest pages. I put something up there several years ago that I knew to be absolutely true, and within minutes that had been changed.

I'll use it for looking up old movies and geography stuff, but that's about it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-10-22 16:04  

#9  A standard reply of the left when they are under scrutiny: "Oh, that. It was debunked or discredited long ago." See Hillary Clinton's, Jim Comey, etc. responses before Congress or before real news reporters. A variation is "I never had sex with that woman." Yawn.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-10-22 14:06  

#8  'Reliable Information', Hah! For the melting point of Tungsten, sure maybe.
Posted by: magpie   2020-10-22 12:44  

#7  As a concept Wikipedia was a noble idea. But lefties are far more zealous about pushing their propaganda and everyone. Every once in a while a conservative position shows for a few hours, but inevitably the Liberal zealots wipe it out.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-10-22 11:05  

#6  Political items with the Dems is a bunch of lies surrounded by bodyguards of bull sh$t.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-10-22 10:40  

#5  Debunked is for those who believe Bill "did not have sex" with that woman
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-10-22 09:46  

#4  Just add "[citation needed]" to the "debunked" claim.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-10-22 09:40  

#3  Read an article yesterday (well, just the first paragraph as I stopped reading) where they flat out (as if a priori/fact) called all this "dubious". It's f'in disgusting.
Posted by: Clem   2020-10-22 09:20  

#2  So much for a reputation of reliable information. Amazing how many rather burn any integrity over the lust for power. It can only be so when they believe that once they get power again, they'll never give it up. Welcome to the world of the Soviet Encyclopedia.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-10-22 08:58  

#1  I'm going to guess that half of the donors to the site are done with them.
Posted by: gorb   2020-10-22 01:02  

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