WikiTribune is already biased | The Outline: WikiTribune
As of this writing, WikiTribune’s homepage featured a hodgepodge of news aggregation. The “editor’s choice” module points to a news roundup that includes Paul Manafort’s indictment, the Catalonian independence movement, the resignation of the Iraqi president, suicide bombings in Mogadishu, and the actor Anthony Rapp’s allegation that Kevin Spacey made a sexual advance toward him when he was 14. These stories are all sourced to fairly mainstream news outlets, including some that are on Wikipedia’s preferred sources listsuch as CNN and Reuters, and some that are not, such as Politifact and “Spanish media.” The facts are attributed inline in most cases to those outlets (“according to CNN,” “Reuters independently corroborated,” “according to Spanish media”). These entries also link to what is described as “the full story from WikiTribune” or “WikiTribune’s latest report,” which are simply longer summaries of the news with more facts also attributed to mainstream outlets including NPR and the BBC. The Manafort article was written by intern Charles Michio Turner, “an American journalist who reports on labor, politics and development.” The Catalonia report was written by George (Jorge) Engels, “a staff journalist and producer at WikiTribune” who is from Argentina and lives in London.