"Wikipedia co-founder reveals U.S. intelligence exploited site to spread leftist propaganda for decades" by Belle Carter 09/08/2023
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"Wikipedia co-founder reveals U.S. intelligence exploited site to spread leftist propaganda for decades"
by Belle Carter09/08/2023
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-09-08-wikipedia-co-founder-reveals-u-s-intelligence-exploited-site.htmlLawrence Mark Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, recently exposed that U.S. intelligence agencies have been manipulating the free online encyclopedia for nearly two decades to spread left ideologies.
Sanger revealed that Wikipedia has become an instrument of "control" in the hands of the U.S. establishment, which includes the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other agencies, during an interview on "System Update" with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald.
Sanger also believed that the site which is claimed to be maintained by a "community of volunteers," became a target for weaponization between 2005 and 2015, with "information warfare … conducted online."
.@Wikipedia is a dominant force in the information ecosystem—largely due to how aggressively it's pushed by Google's search engine.
And controlled by a small number of contributors w/ an appalling pro-establishment bias, it has effectively been forged into a weapon of elites. pic.twitter.com/Q2hFFnDjYS
— System Update (@SystemUpdate_) August 1, 2023
Meanwhile, Sanger's revelations aligned with findings from a programming student named Virgil Griffith, who first published evidence of CIA and FBI activity on Wikipedia in 2007. He developed a program that could trace the location of computers used to edit Wikipedia articles and found that the intel and other government agencies as well as several corporations were scrubbing incriminating information on the the online encyclopedia.
"[The intelligence agencies] pay off the most influential people to push their agendas, which they're already mostly in line with, or they just develop their own talent within the [intelligence] community, learn the Wikipedia game, and then push what they want to say with their own people," Sanger told Greenwald.
