It used to be viewed as just another benign tool used by the masses for quick bites of information on a wide array of topics. But as the curtain continues to be lifted, Wikipedia’s sinister disposition is becoming more and more clear.
The Media Research Center has now produced three separate analyses on Wikipedia, with all three pointing to an unmistakable conclusion: That the once useful online encyclopedia has become little more than a shill for the left’s agenda.
The MRC’s most recent research shows how Wikipedia ramped up attacks on now-Vice President JD Vance as his political star has risen in Washington D.C.
Key points from the study:
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Wikipedia Editors Set Out to Crush JD Vance Right When He Became a Potential Vice Presidential Candidate. Wikipedia editors flooded Vance’s page with 883 edits during the GOP vice presidential sweepstakes in the lead-up to Vance’s debut at the Republican National Convention—far more activity than the mere 500 edits made in a five-year span from March 2017 through May 2022—signaling a clear attempt to negatively reshape his public image. This mass editing began soon after legacy media floated Vance as a possible Trump running mate.
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Wikipedia Effectively Framed Vance as a Radical Across Key Issues.
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a) Poor Treatment of Vance Ramped Up after He Became a Potential Vice Presidential Candidate. From immigration to his support for MAGA, Wikipedia ensured that Vance was depicted as being as fringe as possible. This also applied to his not-for-profit work.
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b) Ill-Treatment of Vance Began after He Launched His GOP Senate Candidacy. Vance, the popular author of the best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy, had a far more positive Wikipedia page until he decided to run as an outsider for the Republican nomination for Senate. Among the edits that came after he began his Senate run were accusations over his immigration comments, his past opposition to Trump and attacks on his book.
Before the Vance study, MRC Free Speech America exposed Wikipedia for effectively blacklisting all right-leaning media, smearing President Donald Trump, the Republican Party and conservatives generally. The study detailed how “Wikipedia has designed a protocol that directly and unerringly produces the worst descriptions about conservatives and Republicans by virtually guaranteeing that right-leaning media sources cannot be cited. The once reliable online encyclopedia ran off the rails under the leadership of its previous CEO Katherine Maher, who made sure that not a single right-leaning outlet was deemed ‘reliable’—a stark contrast to the 84 percent of leftist media Wikipedia deems reliable.”
MRC has also demonstrated how the online tool treated Trump nominees before/after he named them to key positions within his administration. The biased online encyclopedia left no stone unturned in its attempts to undermine Trump’s picks from now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to now-FBI Director Kash Patel and now-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
And while the evidence of Wikipedia’s ongoing shenanigans continue to pile up, it's not alone in building a case against itself. Google has been doing some piling of its own in recent months—stacking up court losses. Google has lost its third antitrust case in the last 16 months, this time in the ads market.
From the MRC Free Speech America report:
“District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema found the Big Tech behemoth Google to have illegally maintained a monopoly in the advertising market. The decision follows similar rulings in separate federal courts holding that Google also violated antitrust law when operating its search engine and app store.
“Brinkema’s 115-page decision, issued on April 17, 2025, held that Google was an illegal monopoly in both the ‘publisher ad server’ and ‘ad exchange’ markets. Both monopolies were operated through the Google platform ‘Ad Manager,’ which facilitates both online advertising sales and the placement of those same ad purchases.”
Time will tell what will come of Google given its monopolistic practices, but the walls are closing in on the tech giants once considered untouchable. MRC will continue to stand steadfast in its pursuit of documenting and combating the falsehoods and censorship of Big Tech in order to defend and preserve America’s founding principles and Judeo-Christian values.
Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
