A vicious culture war is taking place via edit wars on Wikipedia in India, exploiting and aggravating religious tensions in the context of COVID-19
Edit-warring was already common as India descended into political polarisation. Then along came Covid-19 Tweets: @hkumar747 , @conorjtobin , @wireduk , and @omerbenj Tweets: Himangshu Kumar / @hkumar747 : “In 2020, the BJP's national spokesperson tweeted that Wikipedia was “no longer neutral” and “known to carry fake info”.... social media claimed Wikipedia has an “anti-Hindu” and even “anti-India bias”.” https://www.wired.co.uk/... Conor Tobin / @conorjtobin : “The open encyclopaedia, now entering its twentieth year, has been accused of partiality by figures on both the left and the right of the political spectrum across the world with regularity.” - @OmerBenj https://www.wired.co.uk/... " @wireduk : Edit-warring was already common as India descended into political polarisation. Then along came Covid-19 https://www.wired.co.uk/... Omer Benjakob / @omerbenj : Wikipedia edit wars in India have became a perfect storm of religious acrimony, political hate-mongering and Covid-19 misinformation https://twitter.com/...