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Good evening. It's Monday, July 31. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
Tonight: Wikipedia has long been one of the internet's most influential sites but the online encyclopedia’s power has grown significantly in the last several years as the result of a growing relationship with Google that, among other things, ensures that it is automatically the most prominent site whenever one uses the Google search engine to search a particular person, institution, or other entity.
As usually happens with new information tools that grow in power and influence, establishment forces began to prioritize the weaponization of Wikipedia for their own purposes. That is one of the reasons Google began to fund and otherwise support it: as a means of commandeering it. And all sorts of instruments have been developed to degrade what was once one of the most promising sites on the internet into yet another weapon of propaganda for the liberal establishment.
So extreme has this degradation been that one of Wikipedia's two co-founders – Larry Sanger – the person who coined the name Wikipedia and wrote its original governing documents and philosophy, more than 20 years ago, warned the world in the last several years that the site is no longer trustworthy as a source of information because it has now become little more than a propaganda arm of the liberal establishment, where every article involving political controversies or political figures is blatantly slanted in favor of establishment liberalism
We'll dissect and explain exactly how this manipulation and gaming of Wikipedia is achieved.
And we'll also speak with Sanger himself on what the mission of this site was supposed to be – an ideology-free online encyclopedia made more reliable than ever by the fact that it was to be both neutral and dependent upon collective human knowledge – and how specifically and deliberately those defining values are now being violated.
We did have Larry Sanger confirmed for several days and we're hoping he will still appear. We had difficulty speaking with him over the last several hours to do the last confirmation, but we're hoping he simply is offline and at the right moment will appear. But we will let you know. We nonetheless have the reporting entirely prepared to walk you through how Wikipedia is being weaponized and instrumentalized in favor of liberal propaganda.
Then, Joe Rogan hosted the comedian Jim Gaffigan on his Friday night show and tried to explain to that comedian the reasons why it's clear that the U.S. security state, especially the FBI, had at least some involvement in the events of January 6. In response, Gaffigan simply could not fathom that the FBI could be capable of such nefarious actions, nor did he conceive of any possible reason why they might be motivated to do these sorts of things. We're going to break down that discussion to highlight all of the evidence proving the truth of Rogan's belief and add some other reasons, some motives why the FBI clearly would be motivated to engage in exactly that kind of behavior, namely, turn what was intended to be a peaceful protest into a violent one and turn a protest movement into an insurrectionary movement in the United States. We'll also demonstrate how this sort of naiveté about – and even support for – the U.S. security state is now central to the banal liberal worldview, or at least the anti-Trump worldview demonstrated or highlighted by Gaffigan.
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