The co-founder of Wikipedia, also one of its most vocal critics, has asked a new government task force to investigate potential federal government ties to the online encyclopedia.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger tagged Elon Musk, X owner and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.), to investigate whether or not government employees are getting paid to contribute to or lobby Wikipedia’s online pages. This comes after weeks of moves emanating from the White House regarding government waste and shortly after MRC Free Speech America released an exclusive exposé on Wikipedia’s extreme anti-conservative bias.
Sanger posted Feb. 26: “Wikipedia co-founder here. May I ask you to determine what branches of the U.S. government—if any!—have employees paid to edit, monitor, update, lobby, etc., WIkipedia? Such operations should be defunded, if any. If there are *none*, we’d like to know. Agree?”
The encyclopedia entrepreneur also included information about himself, explaining that he left Wikipedia in 2002 and has been criticizing it publicly since 2004.
At this point, the “Wikipedia process is almost as opaque to me as it is to you,” wrote Sanger, but he unabashedly affirmed, “Yes it’s biased, I’ve said so for a long time.”
Sanger also called on President Donald Trump to ensure that no government money or any government employees are being used to edit Wikipedia.
“Hi, @realDonaldTrump—co-founder of Wikipedia here—could I persuade you to use an executive order to make it a policy that neither federal worker hours nor federal moneys may be used to edit Wikipedia or pay for Wikipedia editing?” asked Sanger in an X post. “Thanks in advance. (I voted for you.)”
MRC has provided evidence of the overt bias Sanger mentioned in his posts. On Feb. 3, MRC released a study with evidence that Wikipedia effectively blacklists all right-leaning media, while rubber-stamping leftist legacy sites to smear President Donald Trump and others who oppose leftist ideals.
Not even one right-leaning media source was deemed “reliable” by Wikipedia, while, in contrast, a whopping 84 percent of leftist media was rated reliable by the online encyclopedia.
From the study:
“Among the effectively blackballed media sources are Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Daily Mail, Newsmax, OANN and the Media Research Center. Meanwhile, leftist media like The Atlantic, Jacobin, Mother Jones, Pro-Publica, The Guardian and National Public Radio (NPR) are given the green light. This blatant misinformation means that Wikipedia is purposely feeding Americans information exclusively through the lens of one side of the political spectrum—the left.”
Commenting on the staggering Wikipedia bias, MRC Vice President Dan Schneider stated, “There used to be a joke about how Wikipedia could not be relied on by historians and academics. Wikipedia has now become the joke.”
Just before Election Day in 2024, MRC Free Speech America also exposed Wikipedia’s page “Donald Trump and fascism,” which still remains available and compares Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and Nazi mass murderer Adolf Hitler.
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