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Not everything on Wikipedia is factual, but enough of it is factual to be inconvenient to those on the right who use misinformation as a tool.
To this day Wikipedia is the only source of information that keeps an equal distance to every major power in the world. Everyone else usually has a soft spot because they have some major donor that is affiliated to someone that is affiliated to an organisation that commits atrocities. That in itself is unique and hence why I am annual donor and anyone who has the economic means should be too. Unfortunately that is the only way we can have a shackle free source of information in this fucked up world.