The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

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1:00.2	Roughly a week ago, on September 11th, the day after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot,
1:06.8	Wikipedia users noticed something new on the page for his widow, Erica Kirk.
1:12.5	At the top of the page was a gray box with a red stripe.
1:16.6	Okay, so I'm going to show you something really, really strange about Erica Kirk's Wikipedia page.
1:21.2	It has been nominated for deletion.
1:23.1	That's freaking disturbing.
1:25.9	That's really disturbing.
1:26.9	A Wikipedia editor with the username E. Plurbus Unom That's freaking disturbing. That's really disturbing.
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