Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"
Wikipedia's co-founder Larry Sanger has expressed concerns that the platform has become a propaganda tool, citing ideological kidnapping and manipulation by anonymous editors and intelligence services. Sanger, who left Wikipedia in 2002, claims that the platform's original neutrality principle has been distorted, and that conservative news sources are systematically blocked. He has presented nine radical theses to save Wikipedia from its current state, including abolishing consensus decision-making and enabling competing articles.
- ▪Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, claims that anonymous editors can defame with impunity and that conservative news sources are systematically blocked.
- ▪Sanger states that intelligence services have manipulated Wikipedia's content, citing research that showed edits made from IP addresses in Langley, Virginia, where the CIA has its headquarters.
- ▪Wikipedia has maintained a list of 'recurring sources' since 2017, which functions as an ideological blacklist, blocking sources like Fox News and New York Post.
- ▪Sanger has presented nine theses to reform Wikipedia, including abolishing consensus decision-making and enabling competing articles.
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Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, presents nine radical theses to save his life's work from what he calls ideological kidnapping. In a comprehensive interview with Tucker Carlson, he reveals that anonymous editors can defame with impunity, that conservative news sources are systematically blocked, and that intelligence services have manipulated the encyclopedia's content. Larry Sanger, the philosopher who together with Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia in 2001, paints a grim picture of what has happened to the world's largest encyclopedia. In Tucker Carlson's interview, published on X, he describes how the encyclopedia he created to bring together people with different perspectives has now become a propaganda tool.
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