Following a flurry of MRC reports exposing Wikipedia’s bias and censorship, the so-called encyclopedia’s co-founder just called for the leftist website to commit to transparency and justice or face congressional action.
In a series of Nov. 12 posts on X, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger called for Congress to act against Wikipedia if the online encyclopedia refuses to offer better processes for content to be removed from the website and stop allowing anonymous editors. “Wikipedia should unmask the most powerful editorial accounts, so that they can be made to take real-world responsibility for their work, which has real-world consequences,” Sanger wrote.
Additionally, Sanger urged Wikipedia to give people harmed by the website a platform to speak to Wikipedia editors.
He said that “if Wikipedia does none of these things, Congress may have to act,” pointing out Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. He explained that Congress could strip Wikipedia of its liability protection, which the leftist website claims currently acts as its shield against lawsuits for content posted on its pages.
And while Wikipedia editors shrug off responsibility for these issues, they tightly control other aspects of the online encyclopedia.
Back in February 2025, MRC Free Speech America exposed Wikipedia’s “Reliable sources/Perennial sources list for its bias. Wikipedia editors consistently labeled right-of-center sources as “blacklisted,” “deprecated” or “generally unreliable,” while greenlighting elitist media sources like MSNBC, Mother Jones, The New York Times and CNN. MRC research showed how 100 percent of right-of-center media sources, as determined by AllSides Media Bias Chart, were effectively blacklisted. By contrast, 84 percent of elitist media sources were deemed “generally reliable.” Since then, one right-of-center source, The Washington Free Beacon has been partially greenlit.
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But in his thread on X, Sanger, who has condemned the MRC-exposed effective blacklist, predominantly focused on how “Wikipedia articles libel many famous people.” Sanger goes on to condemn the online encyclopedia for its record on handling libel complaints and notes that the anonymity of editors specifically frustrates attempts to get justice for the wrongly accused. Sanger went on to suggest that Congress rectify this situation if Wikipedia will not.
And the encyclopedia’s parent company, the Wikimedia Foundation, is concerned about their future liability. Wikimedia Foundation Vice President Rebecca MacKinnon recently fretted about Section 230 during an episode of PBS’ The Open Mind that aired on Nov. 9.
After mentioning the Wikimedia Foundation’s support of Big Tech lobbying outfit NetChoice in the Supreme Court case Netchoice v. Paxton, MacKinnon treated censorship of free speech as free speech and criticized an attempt to protect user speech. MacKinnon outrageously suggested that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was challenging “the First Amendment rights” of “platforms to moderate content according to their rules.”
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