Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Just like how no one has ever put anything malicious on Wikipedia. Nope, never, not once
Wikipedia accepts all new entries by default. Almost all open source projects review any contribiution first before merge.
It's also not fair comparison, because there can't exists an encyclopedia you can learn from but not look what's inside it. But you can obfuscate machine code, making it very hard to see what it does, so it's more temping for code developers to put malicious features when noone can see it.
And to back by words: https://gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html
You won't find such dense lists for anything that has source code available.