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The specific skew introduced by Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy when applied rigidly or naively. This bias manifests as false balance (giving equal weight to fringe and mainstream views, e.g., climate science vs. denialism), neutering of moral judgment (describing atrocities in the passive voice of "alleged" or "reported" events), and centrism bias (framing the midpoint between two partisan positions as inherently "neutral," even if one position is evidence-based and the other is not). NPOV can become a bias for the bland, the established, and the non-committal.
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