Your teachers weren’t gaslighting you, stop using that word when you mean lying.
Wikipedia may have sited sources but those sources can, and have been, incorrect many times. Misleading information is still prevalent on the site. So even if you steal the sources Wikipedia uses in their articles you better dig deeper because that shit is nefarious. Wikipedia is not immune to western propaganda. They pick and choose what info to put out there from the sources knowing most, like OP, won’t read deeper into anything they site. You’ll just take their word for it.
A whole bunch of legit sources (even primary sources) are on some form of banned list as the facts they present don’t match the capitalist line.
Stage 1: wikipedia is bs bc muh internet
Stage 2: no in fact wikipedia is reliable because muh sources and muh impartiality
Stage 3: wikipedia is bs bc western propaganda 😎
