Then I noticed that Wikipedia had already been updated with Rodney King's date of death and a brief description of the circumstances. The speed of the update of Wikipedia is astounding.
Social media and especially Wikipedia, while often considered less than credible by conventional news sources , is often quicker to notify readers of events and often more accurate than conventional news sources. The fact I received notification via SMS before this was even posted to WTOP.com and not picked up at Washington Post.comor the New York Times website indicates the latest news may not come from conventional source websites. Our sources for the latest news is evolving.- Harding
From June 2014 on there was a sharp increase in the propaganda and IO use of Wikipedia regarding Ukraine. Before this look at other events, what was reported, and how they are seen now from the Middle East to Ferguson. The edit histories get interesting. IO operatives crowd the editing of a particular topic and change the events and outcome to suit "our side" or in this case their side.
It has evolved to the point where events are being written about in the Ukraine war long before any news outlet publishes a story and some have multiple edits at that point.
" ... but I was having problems describing a "whole of government" approach, and I was having even more difficulty explaining how a "whole of nation" effort might be divided . We finally came up with five categories for what I might call government/corporate/private information activities .
Information Operations. The integrated employment, during military operations, of information-related capabilities in concert with other lines of operation to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp the decision-making of adversaries and potential adversaries while protecting.."-Harding
It will be difficult for Wiki to resolve this ongoing problem given its democratic nature. I have no doubt that it will be done. Otherwise a tool for the benefit of mankind may end up being remembered as a propaganda and information war tool.
If the mass murderer Stepan Bandera can be written in history as a hero, Adolf Hitler( a leader Bandera made nervous because of Bandera's brutality) might be next.
Is Bandera a Hero to Americans?
In order for you, dear reader, to understand the significance of this action, you must understand how Stepan Bandera is a certified national hero of Ukriane. But the people of Ukraine are polarized between the West and the Russian perspective. Lviv and all of West Ukraine worship the ground upon which Bandera walked, ...They wanted an independent Ukrainian state. Surprisingly it was the German -- Soviet takeover of Poland that brought all the parts of Ukraine together. Stepan Bandera, however, had worked against Polish officials when Ukraine was a part of Poland, to expose and stop their corruption, their genocide against Ukrainian citizens and other anti-Ukrainian activites ...After his death the Soviets went to great lengths to smear his name, associate him with the nazis, call him a fascist and an ultra-nationalist...You poor misinformed, overly emotional person. Bandera enabled Ukraine to be a nation, it was war, it was World War II, he did what he had to do to enbale Ukraine. This has been debated ever since 1944, don't try it now...
...Now take your Russian comments and jam them. ..Bandera is widely seen as the hero of Ukraine for standing up against unspeakable repression and imprisonment, to establish an independent state of Ukraine. Bandera was hated so badly by the Soviets and posed such a symbolic threat, in fact, that the Russia KGB assassinated him in Munich, Germany, in 1959...Since his assassination, the Soviets and continued by the Russians, have continually tried to smear Bandera's name, sully his reputation and recreate Bandera and Ukraine's reputation in a very negative light.- Harding
According to Mr. Harding's perspective the answer is an obvious yes, Stepan Bandera is a conservative like John McCain and must be a hero for American children to look up to. The rewriting of history is well under way at propaganda sites like euromaidanpr and maidantranslations.com.
Weaponizing the News
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