Wikipedia co-founder says site is now 'propaganda' for left-leaning 'establishment' can no longer be trusted

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-is-now-
propaganda-for-left-leaning-establishment/

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has warned that the website can no
longer be trusted — insisting it is now just “propaganda” for the left-
leaning “establishment.”

Sanger told UnHerd’s Lockdown TV Wednesday that he started the
“encyclopedia of opinion” in 2001 purely on the basis it would offer true
neutrality and offer “multiple points of view” on “hot button issues.”

Now, he insisted, conservative voices are “sternly warned if not kicked
out” if they try to add a different take on establishment views — which
Sanger deemed “propaganda.”

“You can’t cite Fox News on socio-political issues. It’s just banned now,”
he insisted of the apparent clampdown on respected conservative voices.

“It means that if a controversy does not appear in the mainstream centre-
left media, then it’s not going to appear on Wikipedia,” he said.

Now you can only rely on the site to “to give an establishment point of
view,” rather than the diverse range of opinions it was set up to give, he
insisted.

“If only one version of the facts is allowed then that gives a huge
incentive to wealthy and powerful people to seize control of things like
Wikipedia in order to shore up their power,” he said.

“And they do that,” he continued. “There’s a very big, nasty, complex game
being played behind the scenes to make the article say what somebody wants
them to say.

Sanger said there are “all sorts of tricks people can play to win it,”
including the use of dedicated PR companies to influence listings.

The Wikipedia co-founder cited the entry for President Biden, noting that
it “has very little by way of the concerns that Republicans have had about
him.”

“So if you want to have anything remotely resembling the Republican point
of view about Biden, you’re not going to get it from the article,” he
said.

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“You can’t cite Fox News on socio-political issues. It’s just banned now,”
Sanger said.
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He noted there was just a short paragraph on the “Ukraine scandal”
involving the president’s son, Hunter, despite the political outrage it
created.

“Very little of that can be found in Wikipedia. And what little can be
found is extremely biased and reads like a defense counsel’s brief,” he
said.

And it’s not just politics, he said, noting that the site only reflects
“establishment mouthpieces” like Dr. Anthony Fauci as well as government
health groups in its coverage of COVID-19.

“There’s a lot of Nobel prize winners and distinguished doctors whose
views are not only not welcome on Wikipedia — they’re literally censored
on YouTube and sometimes Facebook and Twitter because they contradict the
narrative,” he said.

“There’s a global enforcement of a certain point of view on issues like
COVID,” he insisted, calling it “amazing to me as a libertarian, or a
liberty-loving conservative.”

Wikipedia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.



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