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Wikipedia's lefty slant measured in new study — but I've felt its bias firsthand

Being a conservative with a Wikipedia entry means that everyone who meets you has already read a hit piece about you, crowdsourced by potentially hundreds of people determined to promote...

NPR just keeps on sliding more and more to the left as it unfolds into a complete crap show

NPR is doubling down on all things woke with new CEO Katherine Maher, who will carry on with the network’s turn further to the far left.

NPR boss Katherine Maher opposed 'free and open' approach at Wikipedia: 'White male Westernized construct'

Maher's "woke" social media posts came to light following the damning essay written by ex-NPR journalist Uri Berliner about liberal bias at outlet.

NPR's new CEO scrubs hyper-partisan posts: 'Donald Trump is a racist'

It's unclear when or why Maher deleted the post, or if it was related to her new NPR gig, which touts its "fact-based reporting; opinion and commentary are secondary."

Ruwiki, the Russian Wikipedia to launch on Monday

A full-scale launch of Ruwiki, a Russian version of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia, will take place on Monday, according to Russian media reports. Beta testing - a limited audience...

Elon Musk says he'll give Wikipedia $1B to change name to 'D--kipedia'

Elon Musk said he would dish out $1 billion to Wikipedia under one cheeky condition: if the donation-based online encyclopedia to "D--kipedia."

Wikipedia users rush to document 'Thursday Night Massacre' after Twitter suspends reporters

Woke Wikipedia users rushed to memorialize Twitter's decision to briefly suspend a clutch of liberal reporters who the company says violated their terms of service.

Elon Musk blasts Wikipedia after it suspends edits of 'recession' page

Musk, the Tesla CEO and the world's richest person with a net worth of $263 billion, tagged Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in a tweet on Friday.

Joe Biden sure looks like he's lying about Hunter's biz

You can now officially file President Joe Biden's claim that he's "never spoken" to his son Hunter about his business activities with his claims that inflation is "transitory" and the...

Wikipedia deletes entry for Hunter Biden investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners

Wikipedia editors removed the entry for Hunter Biden's investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners earlier this week on the ground that it was "not notable."

Why Russia is threatening to ban Wikipedia over Ukraine war

The Kremlin is threatening to block Wikipedia from users in Russia because of an entry about the invasion of Ukraine that includes facts and figures detailing Russian military casualties as...

New Twitter CEO raises free-speech worries

The concern is that Parag Agrawal's leadership will bring even more restrictions to the site than Jack Dorsey's — who infamously censored The Post over its Hunter Biden email exposés,

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."

'Love of knowledge': Volunteers toil to populate Arabic Wikipedia

Launched in 2003, Arabic Wikipedia has seen growth accelerate in recent years, with the number of articles more than doubling since 2015.

Most of Scottish Wikipedia written by American using fake 'accent'

Och aye! Much of the Scottish-language version of Wikipedia is actually written by an American who doesn't even speak the language -- resulting in comically-bad entries that read like they...

Someone has been editing Kamala Harris' Wikipedia page – a lot

The Wikipedia page for Sen. Kamala Harris has been placed under "discretionary sanctions" after administrators discovered that the article had been edited over 500 times since early May -- mostly...

China's genocide and other commentary

Foreign desk: China’s Genocide The “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group” defines a genocide — a standard, charges New York magazine’s...

Court rules Turkey violated rights by blocking Wikipedia

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ruled in favor of Wikipedia, saying the Turkish government’s two-year ban on the online encyclopedia constitutes a violation of freedom of expression,...

Russia plans homegrown encyclopedia after Putin rips Wikipedia

MOSCOW - Russia is to set up a new online site for its national encyclopedia after President Vladimir Putin said Wikipedia was unreliable and should be replaced. The move will...

Wikipedia co-founder calls for social media strike over privacy issues

"Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires." Thus begins Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger's "Declaration of Digital Independence," a new manifesto of sorts advocating for the decentralization of "Big...