Wikipedia Is the Left’s Most Effective Propaganda Tool
Wikipedia isn’t neutral — it’s a powerful ideological weapon. I spoke with Ashley Rindsberg of NPOV about how leftist editors cite lies to smear opponents and shape the public narrative.
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about how shadowy leftist editors at Wikipedia manipulate the platform to shape the global public’s perception of people and topics.I experienced this firsthand in 2019, soon after Antifa militants in Portland nearly killed me. At the time, I was locally known mainly as a Portland-based independent journalist posting videos on Twitter and writing reports that were occasionally published in right-of-center outlets. After the beating, left-wing writers immediately mobilized to push a wave of defamatory articles that falsely painted me as “far-right,” “violent,” and “an extremist.”
Wikipedia editors then cited those partisan articles as “sources,” embedding those falsehoods into my public profile. Google — and now AI tools — rely on Wikipedia to generate overviews about individuals and topics, meaning these distortions are amplified endlessly across the internet.
This is why Wikipedia’s left-wing editorial control is one of the most powerful and under-acknowledged forms of modern propaganda. It’s also no coincidence that the nonprofit’s former CEO, Katherine Maher, is a self-described progressive who champions BLM, intersectionality, and woke lies. She now heads the publicly-funded NPR.
Some on the left have come to fully understand and leverage the potential impact on narrative control through inserting garbage data where AI and search tools source answers to user queries (garbage in, garbage out). It is insidious and is a prime example of how the left feels any means are justified by their ends.
I have used Wiki a lot over the years. Its bias was pretty obvious but it's hard to propagandize chemical reactions. I refuse to give them a cent and doubt I will miss them. These days I really just use it to get plots of movies before I decide whether to buy them or not.