stop the presses hold the phone a
factual error in reporting from the luk
journal has been found and has been
verified this is critically important
because part of responsible journalism
technology journalism or otherwise is a
Relentless dedication to the facts this
means that when an error is discovered a
factual error it is critically important
that the publication not only correct
that error many many will correct an
error silently they just slip it in
there but that that that error and the
correction must be loudly and publicly
announced people need to know that an
error occurred right it it can't just be
a simple little thing you slide into
there you need to be loud about it you
need to let people know that this was an
error it occurred and it has been fixed
it is absolutely absolutely critical uh
with that in mind
here is what we found in the August 20th
2023 article entitled the wiki piggy
bank I go in-depth on the financials of
Wikipedia and the Wikipedia Foundation
which runs it in one portion of that
article I discuss what's known as the
wikim media endowment it is a fund worth
over a100 million it's a huge Fund in
that portion of the article I made the
following statement regarding the source
of the funds for this endowment quote if
W if wikip media Foundation only
contributed $30 million from user
donations to the endowment who
contributed the rest of the money a
company a rich benefactor no it's not
listed Well turns out that statement was
factually incorrect I've screenshotted
the statement here with the offending
line because you all need to see where
the error took place and it turns out
that some of that information is in fact
made publicly available I link to it in
this article here as well as in the
original article the luk journal I just
simply missed it I missed it I missed it
I I can't I can't claim anything else
other than I I missed this one uh I
shouldn't have missed this one this is
right in my wheelhouse of digging up
information on on these sorts of
organizations but somehow I missed this
and this is an unfortunate error because
not only did I get it wrong the details
of this fund of this funding raises
significant questions about wikip media
and quite honestly it makes the the
original story even more compelling
right like if I had uncovered these
details during the original reporting
the story would have been better the
story would have been juicier the story
would have had more to it oh my Heavens
what an absolute travesty this was uh
now now here's a screenshot of some of
those details uh I'm just going to I'm
just going to call this out a little bit
here uh uh three three names jumped out
George Soros Google and Facebook there
there's plenty more to and there's lots
that can be gone into uh here um lots of
benefactors these are individuals and
organizations that gave a lot of money
to this Wick and media endowment but
these these names man they raised some
significant concerns regarding the
potential control of Wikipedia George
Soros controlling to a certain extent
Wikipedia is a very very big deal it's
going to be a very big deal for a lot of
people now the question that's worth
asking here is why did wikip media not
correct this error and this is very much
worth noting the lunduke journal reached
out to the Wikipedia Foundation both
before and after the publication of the
original article for comments and
Corrections I sent them a draft uh which
contained this information in it which
contained this error in it um they never
provided anything and that article went
on to be seen in one form or another
sometimes sent around as links sometimes
uh people talked about in the podcasts
sometimes people took screenshots and
shared it to social media but it got
shared around a lot and that was seen
tens of millions of times uh last count
as of last December it was something
like 25 million people had seen
different variations on this article uh
screenshots and whatnot across a bunch
of different
platforms that's a lot of people looking
at this and that's a lot of times that
the wikim media Foundation definitely
saw it as well which means that the
wikip media Foundation was aware of the
contents of this article and when the
lunduke journal published the statement
that their benefactors were quote not
listed which was an error they would
have immediately known that this was an
error right they put up their website
they know who benefactors are they know
what information they published and as
portions of that article was shared
around and screenshotted and quoted
millions and millions of times they
would have been reminded of that error
repeatedly which begs the question why
not correct the error it's fascinating
right if if you have articles out there
being quoted millions of
times and it has an error about you in
it don't you don't you correct it
doesn't someone related to your
organization say well actually that's
not quite right you'd think so the
answer appears fairly obvious here they
did not correct the error and this is a
little bit of an assumption but it seems
pretty obvious because they did not want
the error corrected right they chose to
not correct the
error because and I think again we have
to assume because this is just an
obvious assumption that the TR truth is
far worse for them than the error the
original error was that oh we don't know
it's a bit nebulous we wish we had more
information about the people giving them
funds the truth is George
Soros I don't know about you but if I'm
running a nonprofit organization that's
trying to appeal to a broad demographic
I would rather have it be nebulous than
George Soros holy Heavens George Soros
is among the most polarizing and most
hated person on Earth and we won't go
into all the details of that now but oh
my Heavens right I mean that you don't
you don't tack the name George Soros
into a financial statement or an article
and have it just be no big deal people
will immediately make huge numbers of
assumptions based on that and none of
those assumptions tend to be very
positive I think we can all understand
what we're talking about there and
considering the pointedly political
agendas and spending of the wiked media
Foundation which all of my which all
appears very accurate in the original
reporting which I link to here the
direct funding and involvement of George
Soros only adds fuel to the fire here
right concerns are being raised and now
fuel is being added to that fire because
of the involvement of George Soros man
oh man I wish I had caught this error oh
I wish I had caught this error prior to
publication as it makes the story even
more
interesting but uh I certainly see why
the wicked media found Foundation was
not keen on these facts getting more
widespread coverage I get it they don't
want people talking about this they
don't want people talking about any of
this but you really don't want people
talking about this with George soros's
name tacked onto it now uh this error
has been corrected um this error has
been corrected in the original article I
also publishing this article uh that you
I'm reading to you guys here stand alone
on the lond duuk journal to announce the
error not buried but front page at the
top error occurred fixed I'm also
following up by publishing both a
podcast and a video which you are
watching and listening to now declaring
both the error and the correction I want
to thank the luk journal reader and my
apologies for not including his name
here I I I just didn't I didn't copy and
paste that my my apologies but those of
you over on luk.com can look it up and
see who thankfully found this ER and
sent this in it is deeply deeply
appreciated now I want to I want to make
a couple more quick statements here um I
have received a few
other people claiming they found errors
in articles over the last couple of days
a few days ago I issued a challenge to
people to find errors and and I truly
mean that from the bottom of my heart
one thing to bear in mind when you do
that is that there is a very big
difference between a f fact and an
opinion or a speculation or an analysis
right now I provide a huge amount of
facts in all of my articles and I try
and diligently make sure that those
facts are facts hard facts undis
indisputable facts easily provable facts
right and back them up with as much as I
can here that said I also have decades
upon Decades of experience in the text
industry in a multitude of ways and I am
going to often opine on various
different stories I'm going to provide
my opinions some anecdotes some analysis
and some forward-looking ideas of what
may be happening here all of that all of
that you can agree with or disagree with
but those aren't facts my analysis my
opinions are simply that and I feel like
the majority of the luk journal audience
is a extremely intelligent and you can
tell the difference between when someone
is stating here is a fact and here is an
opinion that I think is happening um and
so I I want to make sure you're I'm very
clear about this if you're correcting an
error you find don't correct an error of
opinion right if I like or dislike
something don't correct that correct a
factual error and if you're going to
correct a factual error you it needs to
be backed up with something with someone
uh so when this particular error was
submitted in the person who submitted it
did an absolutely Stellar job linking
directly to where they thought where he
thought hey this looks like the source
of the information that you said didn't
exist and lo and behold there it was he
nailed it he provide very clear evidence
that I had made an error it was
fantastic that is exactly how you do it
now if you just say you got it wrong luk
I don't like proba you're probably just
upset at my opinions and maybe take a
deep breath go outside for a minute and
and uh then don't worry about it but if
you do find actual factual errors you
can email them to me you can post them
over on locals uh go to luk.com and you
can find all the contact information
there I absolutely will go through them
all I won't necessarily have time to
respond to everyone but I will be going
through every single one that comes in
to evaluate them to see whether or not
an error was in fact made because if an
error was made I need to know about it
so that my reporting is accurate and so
that you can have confidence in my
reporting this is absolutely critical uh
now I also want to say that if you're
reporting disagreements errors anything
else not on locals or via email I
probably won't see it uh now if you post
it to like my Twitter feed or something
like that there's a chance I might see
it uh if you post it over on Rumble
maybe I'll see it if you post it in a
comment on a YouTube video or post a
YouTube or a podcast video or any of
those things themselves I probably not
going to see it uh I'm sorry I people
yell about me on the internet a lot I
don't really have time to like scour
every different source and and even the
comments sections of my own YouTube
channels I don't read those I I don't
really even go to YouTube that much I
I'll publish everything like this video
I publish to locals and I'll publish to
rumble I'll even publish over on Twitter
and then as an afterthought it also gets
posted to YouTube I don't really go back
into YouTube to check on the art the
comments and all that sort of thing I'm
not a YouTuber uh so if you want to get
a hold of me if you want to make sure
that your error that you found big or
small actually gets seen by me email or
locals those are the two ways to do it
those are the best options that'll make
it happen all right once again thank you
to the uh to the to the diligent and
highly intelligent luk Journal reader
who sent in this correction uh this is
fantastic uh my now my hope is that
there's very few errors found after this
because obviously we would like to have
no errors in the reporting but you know
what human mistakes happen and uh I'm
I'm very happy that the luk journal fan
base the luk journal readers and
audience hold my feet to the fire and
make sure make darn sure that the
contents of the luk journal are 100%
factual uh I absolutely absolutely love
it couldn't do it without you all right
everybody uh if you do not subscribe to
the luk journal go on over and do that
go to luk.com or luke. locals.com or
something like that and with that
nice promo work right and with that
ladies and gentlemen boys and girls
nerds and nerd ETS across the inner tube
as I do declare and broadcast