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Can You Trust Wikipedia? | Ashley Rindsberg

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Non-profit, Self-improvement, Education, Business, History

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Is Wikipedia still an impartial, crowd-sourced encyclopedia, or has it become a propaganda tool for a particular point of view? Investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg charts the evolution of one of the world’s most popular websites, and comes to some surprising and disturbing conclusions. Get all our content ad-free on PragerU.com or download the PragerU app: https://l.prageru.com/45GvWlu Follow PragerU on social media: YouTube Instagram X/Twitter Facebook Rumble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wikipedia is the most widely used source of information in human history.

0:36.6

Think about it.

0:39.1

When you Google anything from historical events to current events, Wikipedia dominates the results. Google ranks Wikipedia

0:45.9

articles in the first spot on 80% of topic searches and uses Wikipedia articles to

0:51.5

populate its knowledge panels that are displayed next to these searches.

0:56.2

With this kind of reach, we would all want Wikipedia to be fair, objective, and accurate.

1:01.4

And if you're doing research on Roman emperors, or Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion, or Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, it usually is.

1:09.1

But when it comes to contemporary, political, and social issues,

1:12.0

Wikipedia has become something else entirely, a battlefield where ideology outranks accuracy.

1:19.3

When you're researching immigration, climate change, or international conflicts,

1:24.1

you'll find not neutral information, but carefully crafted narratives. On these issues,

1:30.1

Wikipedia is neither fair nor objective nor accurate. How did this happen? Through coordinated

1:36.5

groups of editors who systematically control what information stays and what gets deleted.

1:42.8

And anyone who challenges their preferred narrative gets shut down.

1:46.8

On issue after issue, only one point of view is permitted. Take Israel. Over the past few years,

1:52.7

a group of 40 anti-Israel editors have engaged in a campaign to fundamentally de-legitimize the

1:58.0

Jewish state and whitewash the crimes of Hamas and other terrorist groups.

2:02.6

These editors have scrubbed ties between Israel and the Jewish people from dozens of articles.

2:08.6

They've contorted the definition of Zionism from a call for restoration of the Jews to their homeland

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