The edit-freeze comes as numerous members of the Biden administration have tried to argue the country is not in a recession by casting doubt on the word’s definition
Wikipedia joins in the gaslighting!
Online encyclopedia SUSPENDS edits to its ‘recession’ page after users scrambled to change definition to match Biden’s claim that the US is NOT in one
- The page was altered at least 47 times over a roughly 24-hour period, with an administrator locking unregistered users out until August
- The edit-freeze comes as members of the Biden administration have tried to argue the country is not in a recession by casting doubt on the word’s definition
- A recession is commonly agreed upon to be two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth
Wikipedia has suspended the edit feature on its ‘Recession’ page after users flocked to amend it to concur with President Biden’s claim that the US isn’t suffering a downturn.
The page was altered at least 47 times over a roughly 24-hour period, with an administrator locking unregistered users out until August in an effort to curb what the encyclopedia website characterizes as ‘vandalism,’ and ‘malicious’ edits.
The edit-freeze comes as numerous members of the Biden administration have tried to argue the country is not in a recession by casting doubt on the word’s definition, which commonly agreed upon to be two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.
One member made repeated edits to the Wikipedia page to insist there was ‘no global consensus’ on the definition of recession, in what appears to be a bizarre attempt to push White House messaging.
The Commerce Department confirmed in a report on Thursday that the US met that exact definition – announcing gross domestic product shrank 0.9 percent in the second quarter, following a decline of 1.6 percent decline in the first quarter.
The edit history of Wikipedia’s Recession page. The page was locked after it was edited 47 times in 24 hours this week
The Wikipedia page’s history showed a flurry of edits, with an editor going by the name of Soibangla combing through the page and rooting out any references to the commonly held definition of a recession.
Soibangla then replaced those definitions with lines that more closely fit the Biden administration’s take on things, with one line reading ‘There is no global consensus on the definition of a recession.’
Some editors then tried to rebuke Soibangla’s changes, only to then have another round of recession doubting editors change the article back to fit their ambiguous definitions.
A Wikipedia administrator froze the edit feature due to a ‘Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content,’ the website reads, while at the top of the page a banner warns readers that the article may have been ‘affected by a current event’ and not to take its content at face value for the time being.
US gross domestic product shrank 0.9 percent in the second quarter, following a decline of 1.6 percent decline in the first quarter. Two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP is the classic definition of a recession
The consumer price index hit a four-decade high of 9.1 percent in June — an astounding level of inflation for an economy that was apparently shrinking
As the warning sings for the recession that was realized on Thursday loomed larger over previous weeks, the Biden administration took active steps to cast doubt over the definition of a recession and instead began talking about a period of ‘slowing growth.’
In a weekend interview with NBC, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said ‘this is not an economy that’s in recession. But we’re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing and that’s necessary and appropriate and we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace.’
On Monday National Economic Council Director Brian Deese repeated Yellen’s claims, referring to ‘this period of uncertainty, to a period of more stable, steady growth.’
President Biden himself latched onto the phrase, denying outright that there was any recession.
‘We’re not going to be in a recession, in my view,’ he told reporters on Monday, ‘My hope is we go from this rapid growth to steady growth.’
Biden faced fierce criticism on Thursday when he still failed to mention the word recession in a statement released after the Commerce Department announced the figures which showed the US had entered a textbook recession.
‘It’s no surprise that the economy is slowing down as the Federal Reserve acts to bring down inflation,’ Biden said instead.
‘But even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure,’ he added, citing strong consumer spending and a low unemployment rate as signs that the US economy remains robust.
The White House denied that the US meets the criteria for a recession, saying a panel of economists must officially declare that the economy is no longer expanding.
Republican critics accused the administration of flying in the face of reality, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying in a floor speech: ‘You would rather redefine a recession than restore a healthy economy.’… More
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