Once information makes it past the checks and balances of Wikipedia's approval process, regardless of it's accuracy it becomes a fact. Sort of like the way a totalitarian government establishes reality for its citizens. Take Soviet Russia for example, when they airbrushed a dissident out of a photograph, that dissident never existed. In America we
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Is wikipedia potentially a facism of the active contributors?
Wikipedia is a reputation based system, peer built and validated, so theoretically, the closest thing to a meritocracy as possible, but it is not completely open. There are some opinions that are louder than others.
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