Wikipedia Co-Founder Claims CIA Edited Site to Serve US Interests
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Wikipedia co-founder claims CIA edited site to serve US interests
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...
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, said that the digital encyclopedia is compromised and said that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has made editions of its contents. According to him, the anonymity of the editors would have facilitated the propagandistic use of the platform since its early years. In statements to the German daily Berliner Zeitung, Sanger said: “What we know for sure, based on all kinds of evidence, is that the CIA has …
The online encyclopedia of Wikipedia was used as a propaganda tool, and the CIA included amendments to the articles, stating in an interview that Berliner Zeitung was the founder of the Larry Sanger platform.
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