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I have the same issue - only conservative hosts and outlets are interested! Weird.

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Bravo, Andrew. The Obama centrist policy mask is off. It is clear that Obama was a trojan horse for totalitarian policies that want to snuff the life out of people all over this planet and blame them for taking up too much oxygen.

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼-𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱. While we think of platforms like Twitter, You Tube, Facebook--𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹.

Like it or not the main path to any topic--like the Censorship Industrial Complex-- is to be discussed in Academic journals (captured as you point out) and then cited in Wikipedia. The MSM could be cited, but as you recognize in the Pandemic Podcast interview, the MSM dismiss the topics.

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚.-- I've tried but am very outnumbered because there no Reliable Sources to cite. Crowdsourcing works.

Take a long view.

Instead of using platforms like X to make points Wikipedia must be addressed. Alexa, Siri and other virtual assistants use Wikipedia as a source. Wikipedia's articles on any topic become the settled POV.

How to edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

Here is a handy guide from Cornell: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/wikipedia

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Dec 11, 2023·edited Dec 11, 2023Liked by Andrew Lowenthal

Open Access presents a challenge to any topic being cited in Wikipedia. We don't yet know the impact on essays at Substack, but we do know about academic journals. A journal's impact factor increases when it is referenced in Wikipedia (Teplitskiy, et all, 2017). This means that over time there will be fewer citations to publications that are behind paywalls or not considered "Reliable Sources" (like Substack).

Solution is to have people write articles in academic journals that CAN be cited as "Reliable Sources" and then made Open Access.

Here is the current Wikipedia list of "Reliable Sources":: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

Because the Westminster Declaration has not been cited in the "Reliable Sources" it has been scheduled for deletion.

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Teplitskiy, Misha, Grace Lu, and Eamon Duede. (2017). “Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 68.9 (2017): 2116–2127

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In the interview at Pandemic Podcast you discuss that this is ignored. You do not mention Wikipedia.

Wikipedia-- six-thousand users access it for information every second. Because the MSM and academic sources have ignored the Censorship-Industrial Complex-- and thus there are no reliable sources that Wikipedia requires the Censorship-Industrial Complex is not embedded in Wikipedia.

Thus the entry on the Westminter Declaration was deleted.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Westminster_Declaration&diff=prev&oldid=1186875724

Substack essays are not considered reliable sources.

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Dec 11, 2023·edited Dec 11, 2023Liked by Andrew Lowenthal

I was able to link to Pandemic Podcast in an X reply to the post from Pandemic Podcast.

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Who edits Wikipedia??

Age group WMF (%)

12–17 13 percent

18–21 14 percent

22–29 26 percent

30–39 19 percent

40+ 28 percent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians

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