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Posted on 08/27/2025 3:57:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The lawmakers said their investigation seeks to examine how the nonprofit responds to bad actors in order to restore its credibility as a neutral arbiter of information, and what actions are taken to hold the bad actors accountable.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee and one of its subcommittees on Wednesday announced an investigation into allegations of an organized effort to skew U.S. public opinion on sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia is a nonpartisan nonprofit that allows the public to edit encyclopedic articles, but the website's editing team is supposed to review information and remove material that is not verified.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana Iskander, requesting documents and information related to actions by Wikipedia volunteer editors caught violating platform policies.
“Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences," the lawmakers wrote. "One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel.
“A second investigation detailed actions by hostile nation-state actors to expose Western audiences to pro-Kremlin and anti-Western messaging by manipulating Wikipedia articles and other news outlets relied on for training AI chatbots," they added.
The lawmakers said their investigation seeks to examine how the nonprofit responds to bad actors in order to restore its credibility as a neutral arbiter of information, and what actions are taken to hold the bad actors accountable.
The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed to The Hill that it received the letter, but has not commented on the allegations or concerns raised in the probe.
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No.
Just leftist propaganda.
This is what our Congress spends its time doing? Investigating Wikipedia?
Good Lord, save us from these fools.
No one trusts that site.
BCE ???
How about go f*ck yourself. It’s BC and AD. Period!
Anything else is unnecessary and unneeded wokeness.
Wikipedia: Russigate:
“The Russian government conducted foreign electoral interference in the 2016 United States elections with the goals of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the presidential campaign of Donald Trump...”
I read BCE as Before Christ’s Era.
It should always remain as BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of the Lord”)...
This nonsense of BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era)... Is poppycock crapola developed by atheist anti-Christian zealots... Intent on obliterating Jesus from our modern culture and history itself.
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