Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias
Source: The Hill
08/27/25 1:39 PM ET
Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened a probe into alleged organized efforts to inject bias into Wikipedia entries and the organizations responses.
Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), chair of the panels subcommittee on cybersecurity, information technology, and government innovation, on Wednesday sent an information request on the matter to Maryana Iskander, chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia.
The request, the lawmakers said in the letter, is part of an investigation into foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion. The panel is seeking documents and communications about Wikipedia volunteer editors who violated the platforms policies, as well as the Wikimedia Foundations efforts to thwart intentional, organized efforts to inject bias into important and sensitive topics.
Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences, Comer and Mace wrote in the letter.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5473331-wikipedia-bias-probe-republicans/
EPSTEIN FILES!
Notice how when it is the GOP who does this, they call them "information requests" but when it's Democrats, they are dubbed ( "sternly worded" ) "letters" and that characterization (or mischaracterization) works its magic of generationg circular firing squads?

groundloop
(13,313 posts)hildegaard28
(781 posts)See, Republicans, there's this little thing called the first amendment that allows Wikipedia, and the American people in general, to be as biased as they want to be. Ain't nothing you can do about it.
markodochartaigh
(4,175 posts)Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences,
Botany
(75,384 posts)Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences,
Edited
Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on FOX NEWS
for propaganda aimed at all audiences,
But of course bias is OK when Rethugs do it.
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,246 posts)Klarkashton
(4,125 posts)And instead were out in the cold being whipped with cat o nine tails begging for mercy.
Scarlet Begalas
(62 posts)The thing is, when it comes to fascists, they'r not satisfied until they crush all dissent.
bucolic_frolic
(52,518 posts)Republicans don't like it, they can rewrite it, that's how it operates.
jfz9580m
(15,958 posts)If you dont like whats on Wikipedia then make an account and make your case the civilized way.
yardwork
(68,148 posts)Skittles
(167,742 posts)repukes HATE the truth
thought crime
(810 posts)They need alternative facts, official lies, conspiracy theories and of course, religion to prop up their belief in whatever they wish was true.
JawJaw
(731 posts)Their latest newsletter proclaims the advent of the GAB AI browser extension, to allow their brow-beaten right wing audience to inhabit a parallel internet (as they describe it) and generate rightwing AI responses to twitter posts. JFC, these people...
https://imgur.com/a/IRVFRWr
bmichaelh
(967 posts)They do not know how Wikipedia works.
Most anyone can submit a change to an article if they think it is wrong.
Granted, sometimes they have to correct articles, because of a joke.
Onetime, Senator McConnell's Wikipedia article said he was a turtle.
That was not because of some conspiracy.
Midwestern Democrat
(978 posts)knows what he's doing. There have been many articles where I thought a previous version was superior before a new round of changes.
chowder66
(11,349 posts)CAN NOT handle a damn thing.
They have to control as much as possible to feel less terrified of everything. They think they have bravado, or are Type A's but they are just scared-shitless little creeps and creep-ettes who have zero coping abilities.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,639 posts)Just take a look at the insane asylum called "Conservapedia". A looney collection of the dumbest, most insane things that conservative believe.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,802 posts)The bias in those articles is laughable!
Comer and Mace are a couple of stooges that couldnt find their way out of a shithouse..
Scarlet Begalas
(62 posts)And, of course they stole the idea for their name from Wikipedia. Because they're not original thinkers.
Vinca
(52,740 posts)Marthe48
(21,937 posts)that nothing they do is licit, popular, or meaningful. No amount of spinning, lying, erasing, will change the basic fact that rwnj are unlikable crooks.
Shipwack
(2,866 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,360 posts)defunct from their firehouse approach to the law.
Marthe48
(21,937 posts)I can't pass up an opportunity to point how how blind rwnj are to their own failures.
Shipwack
(2,866 posts)I interpret this as
Do I have the right of it? How much free time do these politicians have that they can get butthurt over a Wikipedia article?
hildegaard28
(781 posts)To mean that they dont think professors at taxpayer funded institutions should be able to express opinions they dont like.
Zorro
(17,938 posts)Bet they'd find lots of foreign influences there.
Six117
(284 posts)Sounds like the beginning of an oxymoron. 🤔
Karasu
(2,003 posts)Jack Valentino
(3,385 posts)while Republicans have a pathological liar bias
Karasu
(2,003 posts)insane views they already fucking believe and reduce literally fucking everything to a matter of opinion.
In combination with social media, they are the reason why we've been living in a post-factual world for the last decade.
Jack Valentino
(3,385 posts)Uncle Joe
(63,237 posts)I guess they think trashing the 1st Amendment will turn out at least 9 or 10 people?
Thanks for the thread BumRushDaShow
mwooldri
(10,725 posts)"Citation needed".
The Wizard
(13,408 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(104,844 posts)Embarrassing facts edited out, that kind of thing. Organised among their employees, perhaps.
BumRushDaShow
(160,828 posts)wolfie001
(6,223 posts)It'll be completely ruined in no time. I hope they have $20 million to spare so they can buy a bit-coin bribe. Probably be an annual charge.
orangecrush
(26,848 posts)emulatorloo
(46,130 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,360 posts)His wisdom is lacking.