The Cradle
According to co-founder Larry Sanger, the CIA, global governments, and corporate public relations firms have systematically exploited Wikipedia’s anonymity rules to edit articles and weaponize the digital encyclopedia for institutional propaganda.
In a recent interview with Berliner Zeitung, Sanger stated that intelligence agencies have actively altered content, though the full scale of manipulation remains obscured by the platform’s opaque user structure.
Sanger pointed to corporate crisis management groups—such as Wiki-PR and Portland Communications—which have altered entries for foreign governments, sovereign wealth funds, and corporate clients.
He said that institutional capture has allowed perspectives from multinational corporations, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum to be presented as undisputed facts, while dissident viewpoints are systematically purged by anonymous administrators.
A great many people already know that Wikipedia has been co-opted to represent the US interests so Larry is a bit behind the times. I don’t trust wiki and only ever use it now, for limited information.
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That seems to be a common pattern – for US intelligence to admit illegal activities a decade or so before the whole world knows about it. For Wikipedia’s owners to disclose at this point. Suggest that Wikipedia endured the CIA infiltration voluntary. I suspect they knew about it before anyone else and consciously permitted it. There are lots of ways they could have stoppedit.
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