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Thanks for this. Yes, gamergate I recall hearing about, and will look more at this. It's one example, however.

Regarding disinformation, it's a well known tactic of the extreme right wing to try to shift the blame on to the left by claiming that the left is doing exactly what the right are doing. It's a subversion campaign that has no basis in reality. There may be a person who considers him/herself a far left progressive Nazi, but that is not the definition of a Nazi. It's just an idiot, or a small group of idiots who may or may not exist, but are not really by definition representative of Nazi or Nazism. Wikipedia naturally has to remove nonsense, lies, disinformation and misinformation. It's the job of the editors. When Breitbard, InfoWars, and other corporate-funded goons and their followers cry about this, they're upset that they cannot twist the facts into lies, in order to lead more sheep to the slaughter. It's not surprising. What we need is a reinstatement of the fairness doctrine, which would require that the far right provide appropriate evidence for their claims. This was necessary at the turn of the 20th century, and thus the law developed thereafter. Regarding the MSM, there is now a wide variety to choose from, thanks to the internet. Twittler and others have tried for years to convince their followers not to trust the MSM, which however got him elected. I think most people undersstand that the MSM is just one place for the news, and can find the least biased examples if they bother to look. Some of those least biased sources are among the MSM.