One consequence of Wikipedia being the top information source in the world is that the general public can be very easily misled by misinformation that winds up on the site due to routine vandalism, incompetence, or savvy manipulations. It is why Wikipedia is a popular target for paid corporate editors…

Editors active in the GamerGate dispute, such as the so-called Five Horsemen of WikiBias, their various protectors, and anti-GamerGate Wikipedia false narrative architect Mark Bernstein, were presented as heroic defenders against outside activists using “throwaway” accounts. …

Following the GamerGate ArbCom case, I was subjected to a ban from GamerGate articles. After I received several blocks for ostensibly violating the ban due to me removing what were acknowledged to be violations of Wikipedia’s policies on unsourced negative claims about living people, which are normally a valid cause…

After the removal of the Five Horsemen of Wikibias, the GamerGate article gradually worsened, rather than improved. While a small number of established editors were still involved and pushing an anti-GamerGate bias, most notably Mark Bernstein who created the false narrative adopted in large part by the media, the biggest…

Breitbart News was not always the focus of so much attention as it has been since its role in favoring Trump during the 2016 election made it a source of such unrelenting ire for the left. Prior to its coverage of GamerGate, Wikipedia’s page about Breitbart was largely left alone…

One of the major side conflicts in the GamerGate dispute on Wikipedia involved the article on Anita Sarkeesian. A major point of conflict existed over whether to include criticism of the feminist YouTuber’s videos. Initially, this was not much of a fight as “reliable” sources effectively blacked-out coverage of all…

In the heat of the GamerGate controversy in 2014, a feminist Wikipedia editor named Laura Hale would publish a research paper regarding the supposed effect of Wikipedia’s supposedly toxic environment being harmful to women. Repeatedly invoking the boogeyman of GamerGate by name and implication, Hale’s paper focused heavily on one…

The persistence of the anti-GamerGate editors, particularly the single-purpose accounts who came to dominate the GamerGate article(See Appendix C), and the gradual whittling away of editors sympathetic to GamerGate would firmly take its toll. Mark Bernstein was even allowed a little leeway on his ban from gender-related controversies after he…

Despite the dramatic circumstances of Robert “Gamaliel” Fernandez losing his position on the Arbitration Committee and his self-proclaimed “retirement” from Wikipedia, Fernandez would get back to editing in just a few months, though oddly still calling himself “retired” to this day. However, his lower activity and commitment to stay away…