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Wikipedia bias: ⑰ Buried: the lead says nothing, the body says it constantly

A documented pattern from the Wikipedia audit (checked 2026-06).

The 2015 opening carried the UAE’s terrorist designation of CAIR. Today’s opening carries no terror-family word at all; the body uses them 78 times.

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The deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. The 2020 opening noted its classification as “domestic terrorism”; today’s opening has zero terror-family words against 24 in the body.

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2014 kidnapping and murders of Israeli teenagers

Section titled “2014 kidnapping and murders of Israeli teenagers”

The 2015 opening recorded that the Hamas kidnappers “had engaged in terrorism” and served time for it. Today: 0 in the opening, 42 in the body.

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The opening once opened “also called the Sbarro massacre”: 15 murdered, 7 of them children. The alternate name is gone from the opening; massacre survives once, in the body.

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Described in 2015 as “representing terror victims, Jewish issues, and Israeli causes”. The opening now has no terror-family word; the body has 31.

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Even the Islamic State’s own propaganda outlet gets the treatment: the 2020 opening named the “nine terrorist[s]” of its Paris-attacks video. Today’s opening carries zero terror words against 23 in the body.

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The 2020 opening said Goldstein “perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre”. Today’s opening does not contain the word at all; the body uses it 18 times. Live-checked August 2026.

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Another of the eight Black September perpetrators of Munich. October 2023: “a Palestinian terrorist”. Today, live-checked: “a Palestinian militant and one of eight Black September militants”. The swap is verbatim; terror survives once, in the body.

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The 2020 opening recorded his preaching “banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, the United Kingdom and Malaysia, under anti-terrorism or anti-hate laws”. Today: 0 terror-family words in the opening, 64 in the body.

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The 2015 opening: “pled guilty in 2006 to conspiracy to contribute services to” Palestinian Islamic Jihad, “a Specially Designated Terrorist organization”. Today: 0 in the opening, 40 in the body.

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The Blind Sheikh, convicted for the plot behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The 2005 opening tied him to “two of Egypt’s most dangerous terrorist organizations”, Egyptian Islamic Jihad among them. Jihad today: 0 in the opening, 18 in the body.

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The 2015 opening recorded Israel’s own Defense Minister moving to “categorize Lehava as a terrorist organization”. Today: 0 in the opening, 12 in the body.

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The youngest female suicide bomber at the time of her attack. The 2005 opening described her seeking “to join one of the militant Palestine groups”. Militant today: 0 in the opening, 2 in the body.

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The 9/11 cell. The 2005 opening described members intending “to wage jihad”. Jihad today: 0 in the opening, 12 in the body.

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Izz ad-Din al-Qassam’s organization, whose name is on Hamas’s rockets. The 2015 opening described its founding split, one faction arguing “for immediate terror attacks”. Today: 0 in the opening, 3 in the body.

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