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A co-founder of Wikipedia wants to know who is responsible for turning the website into a woke propaganda machine.
From Fox News: Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is calling on Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to look into whether government actors have infiltrated the online encyclopedia that he helped start over two decades ago.
“Hi @ElonMusk. 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?” Sanger recently wrote on X.
Sanger, who left the organization in 2002, has been a heavy critic of Wikipedia since about 2005, when he says the website began to drift into left-wing bias.
Sanger says the website has long abandoned its neutrality policy, which he helped develop at its beginning.
In his request to Musk, Sanger added:
For people who don’t know me:
– I left WIkipedia in 2002.
– I have been a critic since 2004.
– The Wikipedia process is almost as opaque to me as it is to you.
– Yes it’s biased, I’ve said so for a long time. See my blog (http://LarrySanger.org).
– I do http://Encyclosphere.org.
For people who don’t know me:
– I left WIkipedia in 2002.
– I have been a critic since 2004.
– The Wikipedia process is almost as opaque to me as it is to you.
– Yes it’s biased, I’ve said so for a long time. See my blog (https://t.co/50eeQ4TzyD).
– I do https://t.co/JojpCjkeGY.— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) February 26, 2025
Sanger also posted a request to President Trump:
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?
Thanks in advance. (I voted for you.)
Elon Musk replied to that one, writing, “Good ideal.”
Good idea https://t.co/DfCWuxDomC
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 27, 2025
Sanger also spoke to Fox News Digital, voicing his concerns about why Wikipedia went woke, and explained that he wants to know who has their hands into it, including whether it is US government actors, or the Russians or Chinese.
As an example, he noted that articles on global warming are now completely one-sided, and the liberal spin is applied to all article about political figures, with the worst points highlighted on Republicans, while Democrat figures get glowing “puff pieces” on their pages.
Wikipedia co-founder calls on Elon Musk to investigate government influence on Wikipediahttps://t.co/UPPoVEFG1k
— Larry Sanger (@lsanger) March 7, 2025
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