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Why does Misplaced Pages label the 2020 election theft conspiracy theory as a conspiracy theory, but not the 2016 Collusion?
Face it. They're both just conspiracy theories. Stop treating one as fact and the other as fiction. I hate how each side flaunts the same conspiracy theory but acts like it's not a conspiracy theory just because it fits their narrative. When a source doesn't fit a person's narrative, they label it an unreliable source, when a source does fit their narrative, they label it a reliable source, despite the characteristics of said sources being the same
24.121.228.241 (talk) 15:32, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
No, it's not. Neither is fact. If Russiagate were, there would've been sufficient evidence to charge Trump, and even this page acknowledges that there wasn't. 24.121.228.241 (talk) 15:44, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
THis is about Russian interference, there is evidence of that. What there is not evidence for is Trump knowingly asking them to do it. Slatersteven (talk) 15:55, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
IP24.121.228.241, more accurately, where do we say there was "conspiracy"? There was plenty of cooperation, also known as collusion, but Mueller was unable to prove "conspiracy" and "coordination". These are specific terms used in investigations, so we should be careful. Mueller's investigation was a limited, not very thorough, and strictly criminal investigation, so non-criminal, even treasonous, collusion was of little interest to him, and he said so. He specifically addressed collusion and how he did not treat it the same as conspiracy. See Mueller report#Conspiracy or coordination vs collusion.
On August 16, 2018, former CIA Director John Brennan stated that Trump's claims of no collusion with Russia were "hogwash":
The only questions that remain are whether the collusion that took place constituted criminally liable conspiracy, whether obstruction of justice occurred to cover up any collusion or conspiracy, and how many members of 'Trump Incorporated' attempted to defraud the government by laundering and concealing the movement of money into their pockets.
Trump and Barr claimed that Mueller exonerated Trump and that there was "no collusion", but that was false:
As Mueller made clear in the public statement he offered Wednesday — his first of substance since being appointed as special counsel — Trump’s summary was not an accurate one. The special counsel’s report explicitly rejected analysis of “collusion,” a vague term that lacks a legal meaning. Instead of a lack of “collusion” between Trump’s campaign and Russia, Mueller said that “there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy."
There was foreign interference in every election, and technically all kinds of errors in every election, yet there are no dozens of sections articles with references longer than my arm about them. Who cares if he met with foreigners prior to assuming office? Thats normal, every president did it and he's doing it now. Who cares that some Russian university bought $~200k in facebook ads or ran some experiments? Every Canadian, European and American university has similar social media experiments (I took part in one). Zero convictions came from this, its all smoke and mirrors.
From the outside, this is a 4 year attempt to delegitimize an elected president, an attempt by one party, media, loyalists of the prior regime, and supporters of institutions who wanted to ilicitly grab power for their bureocratic fiefdoms. These groups colluded to perform a soft coup which succeeded in many ways - eg. refusal to follow direct POTUS orders on exiting Syria, direct statement that a general would "warn china" of a surprise attack the POTUS does, refusal to end the lockdown after the first two weeks... It has never happened before in history.
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In the U.S. Government Response section, I think the sentence "At least 17 distinct investigations were started to examine aspects of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections." Should be changed to "At least 17 distinct legal investigations were started to examine aspects of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections." I think the original phrasing is unclear as it makes it seem like there were 17 intelligence investigations whereas the cited source is only talking about legal cases against Donald Trump in relation to the 2016 Election. HolyRomanSloth (talk) 00:13, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
This article's section titled "2020 committee report" (8.1.2) contains three paragraphs verbatim of Democratic members' assessment of the Committee report, sourced from the end of Volume 5 of the Report under the title: ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF SENATORS HEINRICH, FEINSTEIN, WYDEN, HARRIS, AND BENNET. The same section of this article represents Republicans' view with a partial quote, the equivalent of a single sentence, from Senator Rubio, which is sourced from ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF SENATORS RISCH, RUBIO, BLUNT,
COTTON, CORNYN, AND SASSE in Volume 5 of the Report. This, in my assessment, is a clearly and seriously unbalanced treatment of the partisan reactions to the report. A remedy is required and could be one of the following: 1) Reducing the size of the Democratic quoted response and adding a similarly-sized block quote from the Republican response; 2) Eliminating the three paragraphs quoting the Democratic response and adding a Democratic response to the body of the text similar in size the to single quotation from Rubio; 3) Enlarging the Republican quotation in the body of the text and adding a similarly-sized Democratic quotation in the body text while removing the oversize Democratic block quote; 4) Adding three paragraphs of quotations from the Republican response to balance the extended Democratic block quotation. My preference is #1, #2 or #3, because lengthy quotations of primary material are discouraged in Misplaced Pages. The Democratic response in the committee Report is considerably longer than the Republican response, but that does not justify such clearly unbalanced treatment (effectively one sentence, compared to three paragraphs) in this section of this article, a situation that can readily and justifiably be interpreted as a partisan slant in this article that we should unhesitatingly correct. DonFB (talk) 01:25, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
That is an invalid argument per WP:FALSEBALANCE. In other words, there is no obligation to include one party's take just because another party's take is included. But I have deleted all of those lengthy quotes because they are cited only to primary sources. Geogene (talk) 01:30, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
I can accept deletion of all the primary source quotations. Originally, the Democratic block quotation was introduced with essentially undisguised favoritism by an editor who wrote:
"Contrary to some of the Republican members of the Committee, the Democratic Senators had no doubts about Trump and his campaign's efforts to help Russia"...
...and then proceeded to load up the section with the three paragraphs of Democratic opinions about the Report, while constraining the Republican response to the single-sentence Rubio quotation.
This was not a case of false balance, however. That part of the NPOV policy says: "policy does not state or imply that every minority view, fringe theory, or extraordinary claim needs to be presented along with commonly accepted mainstream scholarship as if they were of equal validity". Applying that guidance to justify the three-paragraph vs. single-sentence imbalance that existed in the article section would denote that the Republican opinion is, according to some unspecified authority, "minority", "fringe" or "extraordinary". Undoubtedly, some professional pundits and some Misplaced Pages editors believe that to be the case, but such political opinions cannot be reflected in the content and proportionality of our articles, unless explicitly attributed.
The U.S. Republican and Democratic political parties contend the issues covered in the Senate Report and use different key words to make their points, especially "collusion" and "cooperation". I am not aware that any neutral or undisputed authority has adjudicated that one side or the other is in the minority or espouses a fringe view. Rather, this is a case of political partisanship between the two major U.S. political parties, and we have an obligation to represent their views with adequate balance. DonFB (talk) 02:46, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
Undid revision 1264022576 by Sarah777 (talk). Without credible opposition in reliable sources, this is a statement of fact, not a POV
It would appear that anything the US "intelligence community" claims is now, per Goegene, a fact - unless you can prove it isn't. This is so bizzare that it appears to prove the online conspiracy theories that the CIA controls certain articles and has infiltrated the Arb Management system of Wiki. Seriously? And is the American Intelligence Community the only one on Earth whose utterances are taken as FACT - or are there others? Sarah777 (talk) 17:55, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Is this fact being disputed in reliable sources? WP:YESPOV says, Avoid stating facts as opinions. Uncontested and uncontroversial factual assertions made by reliable sources should normally be directly stated in Misplaced Pages's voice, for example the sky is blue not believes the sky is blue. Unless a topic specifically deals with a disagreement over otherwise uncontested information, there is no need for specific attribution for the assertion, although it is helpful to add a reference link to the source in support of verifiability. Further, the passage should not be worded in any way that makes it appear to be contested.. So, I will ask you again, Sarah777, is there credible opposition in reliable sources? If there is not, then this is a fact. Geogene (talk) 18:26, 23 December 2024 (UTC)
Reliable ones - you know, other than the "US intelligence community" or sources merely citing them. Yes, I'm asking for that. Sarah777 (talk) 22:26, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
I'm very serious. Can you point out a few of those 605 sources which are not citing the "US intelligence community" or sources merely repeating those claims? Sarah777 (talk) 14:57, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
"Can you point out a reliable source, but not one of those 605 reliable sources?" The RS are RS, even if you want to discount them all. What would you accept as a valid source on this topic? A MAGA Republican's twitter feed? You're not going to be satisfied with the result of this conversation so it's best to accept it and move on. the CIA controls certain articles and has infiltrated the Arb Management system of Wiki is pretty WP:FRINGE. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:16, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
So, out of 605 "reliable sources" you can't even supply one?! And I'm not American and have zero interest in the Maga folk. To me the DNC and Maga are two sides of the same coin. Sarah777 (talk) Sarah777 (talk) 00:18, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Btw..."but not one of those 605 reliable sources" - I'm stating that I don't beleive any of them are reliable sources. Seemingly you can't supply any source that hasn't originated with the US "intelligence community". Why am I not surprised? Sarah777 (talk) 00:23, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
No, not "can't", "won't". I'm not playing your game. It's not on me to satisfy you personally after all of the years of editing and consensus-building that has taken place on this article, especially when you've already moved the goal posts to such a ridiculous place beyond the pitch. I don't care where you're from (other than it influencing my choice of the word "pitch" over "field") and what you personally believe is irrelevant here. I care that we have RS in the article, 605 of them in fact, and they are reliable whether you like that or not. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Referencing and citation: criterion not met
Coverage and accuracy: criterion met
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Done Hyphenation Expert (talk) 21:27, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Y DonFB (talk) 00:47, 20 December 2024 (UTC)