Since Donald Trump’s first arrival to the White House in 2018, and more since his second term in January 2025, attacks on Wikipedia from the United States have multiplied. According to his detractors, the encyclopedia online is won by a liberal thought and would not give voice to the conservatives.
After Donald Trump in person, he is one of his lieutenants, Senator Ted Cruz, who joins a letter sent to Wikipedia.
Accusations without proof
In his writings, the ultra conservative politician requests information “about the ideological prejudices of the Wikipedia platform and the Wikimedia Foundation.” To support his statements, he cites studies by Manhattan Institute, a conservative research center, explaining that the articles published “often” a “left”.
He points out the list of “reliable sources” dictated by Wikipedia, in which we find US media such as MSNBC and CNN, two hateful information chains of the Trump camp. Fox News, which is an ultra conservative chain with emissions that sometimes transmit conspiratory theses, is affected by a “generally unreliable” label, as well as the centers of conservative reflection such as the Heritage Foundation, in contrast to that, classified to the left by Ted Cruz, the Poverty Law of the South.
In addition, he also denounces the “censorship” of a certain extreme right and conspirators such as Breitbart News or American Free Press.
But Ted Cruz seeks here to discredit Wikipedia, the mood of the pressure of the Trump administration and his political group, the Maga, in the media. Especially because Wikipedia is transparent in its classification system: as Arstechnica pointed out, the encyclopedia explains that after a “public debate and consensus”, Fox News was degraded due to the dissemination of deceptive information about climate change or the Covvi-19 pandemic. It is also in this channel that we could have seen “areas of not going” in the Paris region, against all evidence.
Wikipedia defends any ideology
In this same letter, and always without evidence, Ted Cruz says that Wikipedia would support left -hand organizations “pressed to write anti -Semitic stories while bleaching activities from certain groups like Hamas.”
The senator is sailing here in a news that had reached the headlines in the American press in January. The encyclopedia had prohibited eight taxpayers after the behavior was considered inappropriate in the pages linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also insults the “discussions” tab.
In response to this letter, Wikipedia explains to Arstechnica that the platform is backed by specific standards and high quality voluntary monitoring. “However, you want to specify that if” educating the “more” than political decisions manufacturers are “an opportunity”, the encyclopedia is designed to protect the freedom of freedom of freedom. persuade”.
The fact is that Ted Cruz’s letter surprises with its moment. In fact, the senator is one of the rare Republicans who has publicly disapproved of the pressures of the head of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, against ABC (who had stopped the broadcast of Jimmy Kimmel, after the latter complained about Donald Trump’s political recovery for the death of Charlie Kirk). Difficult not seeing the same type of pressure towards Wikipedia.
Source: BFM TV
