WARNING: Don't trust what you read on Wikipedia because you just don't know where that information came from.
"Fox News is there. So are The New York Times, Al Jazeera and WorldNetDaily. Corporations like Diebold, Raytheon, Pfizer, Exxon Mobil and Wal-Mart. Not to mention the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, members of Congress, the CIA, the Church of Scientology and the Catholic Church. They all made changes of some kind to entries that included references or information about them."
"Traditional encyclopedias contain a body of knowledge dictated by a limited pool of experts. Wikipedia takes the position that the general public, as a whole, has a vaster amount of knowledge than any small group of experts, no matter how skilled they are, so the website gives Internet users an opportunity to share their own expertise, determine what knowledge gets included and contribute to the production of a new encyclopedia. "
I am not sure exactly what the purpose is for Wikipedia but it seems to me that the information is flawed and not reliable, so why does it exist? This is just another example of why technology is overrated in my opinion. As stated before, I will not discount all the good it has done but really, are we asking for trouble?
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