Wikipedia co-founder Lawrence Mark Sanger has accused US intelligence agencies of manipulating the online encyclopedia for nearly two decades.
In an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, Sanger claimed that Wikipedia had become a tool of “control” in the hands of the US establishment, which includes the CIA, the FBI and other intelligence agencies.
“We have evidence that … even as far back as 2008 … that CIA and FBI computers were used to edit Wikipedia,” Sanger stated during the interview.
“Do you think they stopped doing that then?”
.@Wikipedia is a dominant force in the information ecosystem, largely due to the aggressiveness with which it is driven by the Google search engine.
And controlled by a small number of collaborators with a chilling pro-establishment bias, it has effectively become a weapon of elites. pic.twitter.com/Q2hFFnDjYS
— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) August 1, 2023