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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 23 December 2015 01:47:36AM *  0 points [-]

Wikipedia for example creates a lot of value with being structured as a network.

Which fails completely when the subject is in any way political or controversial. And by fail completely, I mean produces articles which anti-correlate with reality.

Comment author: ChristianKl 23 December 2015 11:13:12AM 0 points [-]

Which fails completely when the subject is in any way political or controversial.

I don't think it fails completely. Failing completely would mean that it's clearly worse than the alternatives.

If I have a political question such as what happened at the Paris attacks, Wikipedia provides good answers.

Is there a single market driven or hierarchical organisation that you would consider to be completely trustworthy on the topic of Racial bias in criminal news in the United States