Be prepared to be surprised and perhaps shocked and/or embarrassed.
Anyone who follows me, listens to or watches my show knows that I have regular guests who I trust to be honest and accurate. The audience also knows that the program promotes the podcasts which I believe are crucial for one of two things: serious content on which to build ‘worldviews’ about why ‘the West is the best’, supported by facts and defensible opinions, and fun.
My “fun” – the Cleveland Browns, Cavaliers, Guardians and the Ohio State University Buckeyes – isn’t everyone’s idea of fun, but it is the price of listening. For decades, audiences have accepted my idiosyncrasies about “fun” because they trust my display on important points. They know and explain my prejudices.
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One of the regulars who has generated his own unique and very clear demand signal since the massacre of innocent Israelis and others on October 7, 2023 is Haviv Rettig Gur.
Rettig Gur is an Israeli public intellectual who works on many platforms, which now include The Free Press, the Times of Israel and his own podcast “Ask Haviv Anything.” Haviv’s Patreon community is also large and growing.
His popularity is (in my opinion) due to his excellence as a teacher, period. Haviv is learned, articulate, funny and curious about the world, and he is eager to convince the facts of history and Israel’s current crises. If he were a professor at Harvard, his basic world history course would have to be limited due to student demand. He is one of the best teachers I have ever encountered, along with Harvard’s Harvey Mansfield, Hillsdale’s Larry Arnn, and the late Mary Kay Kane of Hastings Law School (whom I was fortunate to sign for Civil Procedure—a difficult course for first-year law students—decades ago when she was visiting the University of Michigan Law School).
When Rettig Gur burst onto the global stage after being introduced to Americans through Dan Senor’s influential podcast “Call Me Back,” the center-right Israeli position found a unique and powerful voice.
So I listen to every episode of “Ask Haviv Anything” and host it on my show every month or so. Not surprisingly, I find myself promoting several episodes of his podcast that are unrelated to my show. He is the Israeli version of the late Charles Krauthammer, and that is the highest level of praise I can offer.
I have never said or written that a particular episode of one of my favorite podcasts is absolutely necessary for America’s state and federal lawmakers to hear.
Until today. They (and you) should listen to a recent episode that focused on Wikipedia and Reddit – Episode 65, titled “The Unseen Editors are waging the information war with Ashley Rindsberg.”
This episode is so stunning, the revelations so striking, and the implications so great, that I believe 99% of people curious about the world will inhale it. I hope it finds traction in the minds of anyone who understands how “worldviews” matter and how they are formed.
Haviv’s text summary of the episode puts it bluntly: the episode is a “deep dive into the surprisingly small number of editors who have managed to take control of Wikipedia articles about Israel, Israeli history, and Zionism, and mold them into narrow ideological screeds that no Israelis or Jews would recognize as representing them or their story.” That is the crucial conclusion.
Even more alarming is not only Wikipedia’s fundamental bias against Jews and Israel, but also Wikipedia’s deep “GASP” bias on many topics of great importance. Other examples of Wikipedia’s deep, enduring subject matter bias include its articles on the “Covid lab leak theory” and “Trump is an authoritarian” idiocy.
“GASP” is Wikipedia’s founder’s acronym to simplify the sites’ biases: “Global, Academic, Secular, and Progressive.”
I had no idea. Most people, including myself, think Wikipedia is “crowdsourced,” checked and rechecked for accuracy and balance by millions of volunteer editors. It is not always reliable, cannot be cited as a source, but is used by millions of people for quick checks on topics of interest. I thought it was generally fair, but perhaps lacking in detail here and there.
That’s not it. Wikipedia is an ‘info operation’ and not only poisons search engines like Google, but also all kinds of AI models. Ashley Rindsberg is an authority in this area. He needs to be known and heard when he explains what has happened to Wikipedia and Reddit in recent years.
Few people are naive about Wikipedia. Most know that they long ago distorted their entries on public figures, often including errors or absurdities in their biographies.
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But I had no suspicion at all that entries on “big issues” were subject to intent manipulation on a scale so vast that describing their biases as “systematic and enduring” would be like saying President Trump sometimes says surprising things.
The rise of AI depends on collecting and synthesizing what is available everywhere online, but especially on sites like Wikipedia and Reddit. Wikipedia’s evil “editors” know this too, and have deliberately, with fierce concentration and extensive effort, distorted those sites and certain articles, thereby distorting the world’s views on crucial topics.
We now know, and Rettig Gur and Rindsberg explain, that AI is deliberately polluted by extremists and fanatics, and that the engineers of the Large Language Models are either indifferent to these destructive mythologies being smuggled into their products, or ignorant of the fact that they have been played out.
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The anti-Semitic lunatics and fundamentalist jihadists know the major sites and have turned them into weapons of the information war against Israel. The Chinese Communist Party knows it, is burnishing its image, and has begun to deploy its vast resources against the crowdsourced sites and AI LLMs downstream of everything on the Internet.
Don’t believe me, but listen to Rettig Gur and Rindsberg. And commit yourself to questioning everything you read, produced by humans or machines, that exists without reputational validity. And maybe stop visiting Wikipedia and stop contributing to it permanently.
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