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After journalists Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss and Michael Shellenberger won a $100,000 award from the National Journalism Center / DAO for excellence in investigative journalism regarding the Twitter Files, WikiPedia editors threw a fit – with one, who goes by "Specifico", removing all mention of the award until other editors were in 'consensus for inclusion.'

First, from Taibbi's acceptance speech:

This was apparently too much for Wikipedia – which has been the de-facto leftist ministry of bullshit for years.

An editor who goes by "SPECIFICO" took it upon themselves to nuke the DAO award from Taibbi's profile, writing "I reverted the addition of this item. PPlease see the reason im my edit summary. It should not be re-added prior to consensus for inclusion."

Another editor replied: "I am curious. How does one determine that an award is not "credible"?"

Specifico, as it were, is a total weirdo. Shocker, we know.

Fortunately, less-woke minds prevailed, and the award is now visible on Taibbi's page.