Wikipedia spent 2025 acting as a mouthpiece for elitist media and a conduit for left-wing narratives, no matter how extreme, inflammatory or indefensible.
Throughout the year, MRC Free Speech America exposed Wikipedia for its rules that institutionalize ideological bias and for constructing a pipeline of activist editors to enforce said rules. Predictably, Wikipedia editors lashed out against the left’s enemies in America and abroad, going so far as attempting to sully TPUSA Founder Charlie Kirk’s reputation in the immediate aftermath of his violent death.
But Wikipedia isn’t just a leftist website screaming into the wind. Wikipedia is heavily favored by Google Search and is frequently used for Google’s “knowledge panels” that summarize information at the top of search results. Google’s support for Wikipedia has even extended as far as attempting to redirect users searching for Elon Musk’s competitor Grokipedia to Wikipedia instead. And Google is hardly the only titan in Wikipedia’s corner. Wikipedia articles also show up even more frequently in AI-generated search summaries than normal internet searches.
Here are some examples of what Google and the other prominent AI players are enabling. These are some of the most egregious examples of Wikipedia’s flagrant bias in 2025:
- Wikipedia Editors Smeared Charlie Kirk Within Hours of His Assassination.
When Kirk was assassinated on campus on Sept. 10, Wikipedia editors got out ahead of the deluge of people looking to learn about his life. Within hours, Wikipedia editors altered the top section of his Wikipedia profile, which is oftentimes the only section readers look at, to announce that he spread “COVID-19 misinformation.” Wikipedia editors have since further tarred Kirk with accusations of misinformation. As of Jan. 6, 2026, the intro section of Kirk’s page continues to attack him for “promotion of COVID-19 misinformation, false allegations of electoral fraud in 2020, and the white genocide conspiracy theory.”
- Wikipedia Editors Went All-Out to Harm the Reputations of Key Trump Nominees After They Were Nominated
After President Donald Trump announced Pete Hegseth as his nominee for Secretary of Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services and Kash Patel as his nominee for FBI Director, Wikipedia editors terraformed their pages, injecting each page with a heavy dose of supposed scandals and undue negative characterizations of events.
Outrageously, Wikipedia editors removed three military medals from the infobox on Hegseth’s Wikipedia profile, eliminated uniform iconography and reduced the amount of space devoted to his service record. When one editor attempted to restore some of the removed content, others objected and threatened to prevent that editor from making further changes, arguing that a larger space devoted to Hegseth’s decorations would place “undue emphasis” on his military service.
And while Wikipedia editors made sure that readers didn’t learn too much about Hegseth’s service to his country, they added a plethora of personal attacks, including surgically excised quotes of a letter from Hegseth’s mother. Wikipedia editors even reframed a previously contextualized event in a way that made Hegseth’s action look disastrous. Wikipedia had originally reported that during an axe-throwing demonstration, Hegseth accidentally struck a drummer who sustained minor injuries and later rejoined the event. After the nomination, Wikipedia editors removed that context and replaced it with language emphasizing a subsequent lawsuit alleging severe injury.
Wikipedia editors treated Kennedy similarly, adding scandals and negative details throughout his Wikipedia article. These included sexual assault allegations and claims of nonconsensual image sharing in the “Personal life” section of his profile, as well as sensational anecdotes involving dead animals.
Wikipedia editors also reworked Kennedy’s “Career” section, inserting references to a failed bar exam, a disputed hiring decision and criticism of his environmental advocacy, including an incorrect emissions prediction. The cumulative effect appeared designed to embarrass and delegitimize Kennedy rather than neutrally document his career.
And Wikipedia editors expanded and reshaped Patel’s article to emphasize criticism from establishment figures, including claims that former Vice President Mike Pence and former Attorney General Bill Barr held negative views of him. Wikipedia editors added a new section to Patel’s profile titled “Nomination as director of the FBI,” and filled it with personal attacks and allegations, including an accusation of perjury. They also created a sprawling section titled “Promotion of conspiracy theories,” which became one of the article’s largest components.
But editors didn’t just create new sections full of smears. They also revised earlier sections to emphasize alleged failures. For example, Wikipedia editors claimed that Patel exaggerated his role in a hostage rescue in Nigeria and highlighted that the negotiations he supported in Syria were unsuccessful. Wikipedia editors further inserted criticism from The New York Times regarding Patel’s role in the Benghazi investigation.
- Wikipedia Editors Created and Defended a Page Promoting an Extreme Anti-Israel Blood Libel that Prompted Intervention from the Site’s Co-Founder.
Wikipedia editors created and defended a “Gaza genocide” page that explicitly accuses Israel of committing genocide. The heinous article begins with the vicious blood libel, “The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war.” [Emphasis added]. In fact, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales publicly intervened in an unsuccessful attempt to rein in his own Frankenstein monster. This “Gaza genocide” page cites the Qatari government-funded anti-semitic Al Jazeera 43 times and repeats claims from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.
- Wikipedia Editors Selectively Emphasized Race to Demonize Daniel Penny, But Ignored Racial Motivation of the Killing of Iryna Zarutska.
Jordan Neely died on a New York City subway train in 2023 shortly after U.S. Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny restrained him to protect other train riders. Wikipedia’s article on the incident opens by identifying Neely as Black while emphasizing that Daniel Penny is white. However, Wikipedia did not do the same for its article on Iryna Zarutska’s killing on Aug. 22, on a Charlotte, North Carolina train. In fact, Wikipedia editors buried any mention of race, outrageously ignoring that her alleged killer reportedly expressed satisfaction at knifing a “white girl.”
- Wikipedia Editors Demonized Elon Musk After He Endorsed Trump for President, Also Attacking Him Relentlessly Throughout His Days with DOGE.
Wikipedia editors seemed to work hard to drive a wedge between X-owner Elon Musk and Trump. They did this by adding language in reference to Musk, noting that some “call him ‘President Musk’, the ‘actual president-elect’, ‘shadow president’ or ‘co-president.’” Wikipedia editors also altered Musk’s article to refer to him as an oligarch while citing leftist sources like Politico, Vox and The New York Times that identify him by that title. Following Musk’s April 2025 announcement that he was stepping away from DOGE, his page contained 271 citations of leftist sources compared with just four from right-of-center outlets.
Wikipedia editors removed references to Musk’s autism-related philanthropy and omitted his widely reported provision of Starlink services to hurricane victims in 2024. At the same time, they characterized a year of charitable giving as “only” a certain amount and included criticism, labeling his philanthropy “self-serving.” Wikipedia also added attacks against Musk for promoting alleged “misinformation,” his immigration status and his family. Despite the expanding size of Musk’s Wikipedia profile, editors made room for the above changes by significantly reducing mentions of the accomplishments of Musk’s companies. This is easily demonstrated when comparing the April 23, 2025 version of Musk’s page compared to the July 12, 2024 Musk page.
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