Two U.S. House Republicans have launched a probe into what they claim are organized efforts to insert biases into Wikipedia entries, and how Wikipedia might have responded to those alleged efforts. The two representatives, James Comer of Kentucky and Nancy Mace of South Carolina, wrote to the Wikimedia Foundation that their inquiry seeks to investigate “foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion.”
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The probe follows accusations from at least two advocacy groups — the Anti-Defamation League, which alleges a campaign to advance anti-Israeli views and shape narratives about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Atlantic Council, which alleges organized Russian propaganda to promote pro-Kremlin views while smearing Ukraine and its Western allies.
The probe seeks to understand how Wikipedia’s editors and publishers respond to instances where coordinated misinformation campaigns might be suspected.
