Wikipedia Does Fire Drill To Downplay Harvard’s Gay Plagiarism/Antisemitism Scandal
18th December 2023
Wikipedia’s woke editors are scrambling to downplay recent scandals involving Harvard President Claudine Gay.
In recent days, editors have removed mention of the allegations from the intro to her article, eliminated detailed descriptions of the alleged plagiarism, and have attempted to minimize Gay’s handling of antisemitism on campus, Breitbart reports.
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A fight over Harvard’s page ensued as well, with one attempt to mention Gay’s controversy rejected by editor Samuel Klein, who previously served on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, which governs Wikipedia. He argued that the content was ‘undue,’ and suggested an alternative version which essentially avoided Gay’s issues.