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Wikipedia

Wikipedia:

  • Is trusted as a neutral source
  • Is highly visible: First Google return for "9/11"

A scan of Wikipedia's most prominent pages on the 9/11/01 attack shows a concerted effort to promote the official story and prejudice the reader against all alternatives to it. The techniques employed to this end include:

  • Uncritical endorsement of the official story:
    The 'September 11, 2001 Attacks' page recounts the official story with over 8000 words, while allowing only two sentences to describe and direct the reader to the "conspiracy theories."
  • Pejorative labeling of all challenges to the official story:
    9/11 Researchers are shackled with the designation of "conspiracy theorist" whether they propose alternative theories or simply expose problems in the official story.
  • Psychopathologizing of persons questioning the official story:
    The "9/11 Conspiracy Theories" page is created and managed by Chip Berlet, who dismisses all critics of the official story as victims of a delusional world view that he calls "conspiracism," which "sees major historic events and trends as the result of secret conspiracies."
  • Relegation of challenges to the official story to secondary pages:
    All challenges and questioning of the official story are corralled into areas such as the '9/11 Conspiracy Theories' page, separated from the pages purporting to recount true history.
  • Use of logical fallacies, such as appeals to authority and prejudice:
    The main pages refer glowingly to official reports such as the 9/11 Commission Report and the NIST Report, and relegate criticisms of them to pages bearing the "conspiracy theories" label.
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