{"id":2021555,"date":"2023-09-04T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alert-ex-wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked-by-us-intelligence-for-info-warfare\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T20:15:32","slug":"alert-ex-wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked-by-us-intelligence-for-info-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alert-ex-wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked-by-us-intelligence-for-info-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Former Wikipedia Co-Founder Claims US Intelligence Controls Site for &#8216;Info Warfare&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falert-ex-wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked-by-us-intelligence-for-info-warfare%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2021555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Ex-Wikipedia Co-Founder Says Site\u2062 Hijacked by\u200b US Intelligence for &#8216;Info Warfare&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>In a\u200d recent interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning \u2064investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, Lawrence Mark Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia,\u2062 made\u2063 shocking claims about the manipulation \u200dof the online encyclopedia by U.S. intelligence agencies. Sanger\u2062 accused the CIA, FBI, \u200cand other intelligence agencies \u200dof using Wikipedia as a tool of control.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger revealed that there \u200dis evidence dating back to 2008 of CIA and FBI computers being used to edit Wikipedia. He questioned whether this manipulation had \u200dceased or continued over the years. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-am-sitting-here-with-my-father-hunter-biden-says-in-whatsapp-message-to-chinese-businessman-whistleblower\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden tells a Chinese businessman in a WhatsApp message: \"I'm here with my father.\" Whistleblower reveals.\">claims shed light<\/a> on the alleged infiltration of Wikipedia\u200c by\u2064 intelligence agencies and the perceived ideological shift on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger\u2062 pointed out the gradual change he observed in \u2062Wikipedia&#8217;s \u200bcontent,\u2063 particularly in articles related to controversial topics\u200d such as global\u200b warming and certain drugs. He described an &#8220;over-the-top bias&#8221; that \u2062became more apparent between 2010\u2064 and 2015, with a clear preference for Western ideas.<\/p>\n<p>By the time of the Trump administration, Sanger believed that Wikipedia&#8217;s \u200dbias had\u200c intensified,\u200d making it \u200cthe most biased encyclopedia he knew of. Greenwald agreed, stating that the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alert-ex-wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked-by-us-intelligence-for-info-warfare\/\" title=\"Warning: Former Wikipedia Co-Founder Claims US Intelligence Controls Site for 'Info Warfare'\">liberal establishment narrative aimed<\/a> at countering President Donald Trump seemed to have influenced Wikipedia&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger expressed concern about the abandonment of Wikipedia&#8217;s original neutrality policy by its contributors, who he claimed now took cues\u2062 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/limbaugh-calling-on-moderate-democrats\/\" title=\"LIMBAUGH: Calling On \u2018Moderate\u2019 Democrats\">liberal media outlets<\/a>\u200d like CNN, MSNBC, and \u200bThe New York\u200d Times. He\u2063 also revealed that Wikipedia had officially declared 80 percent of major right-leaning news sources as\u2064 unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>Both Sanger and\u200d Greenwald highlighted the weaponization\u200b of information tools and the impact it had on individuals\u200c like Greenwald himself, who had been targeted \u2064with \u2063political attacks and\u200d weaponized propaganda due to his\u200d involvement \u2064in whistleblower \u2064Edward Snowden&#8217;s release of U.S. government secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger recommended alternative online \u2064encyclopedias\u2063 such as Ballotpedia and Conservapedia, although he acknowledged that they do \u2064not rank well on Google. He believed that Wikipedia had become a target for weaponization between 2005 \u200cand\u2063 2015, playing a central role in the online information warfare conducted by intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>These revelations\u200b align with findings from programming student Virgil Griffith, who first \u200dpublished evidence of CIA and FBI activity on Wikipedia in\u200b 2007. Griffith&#8217;s program, \u2063Wikiscanner, traced the \u200blocation of computers used to edit\u200c Wikipedia\u2064 articles,\u200c revealing that the CIA and FBI had edited\u200d numerous \u200carticles\u2064 to \u200cremove\u2063 incriminating information.<\/p>\n<p>Sanger concluded that intelligence agencies either paid influential individuals or developed their own personnel within the intelligence community to manipulate Wikipedia content \u2062to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/alert-ex-wikipedia-co-founder-says-site-hijacked-us-intelligence-info-warfare\/\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Mark Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, alleges that U.S. intelligence agencies have been manipulating the online encyclopedia for almost 20 years. Sanger asserts that Wikipedia has become a means of &#8220;control&#8221; for the U.S. establishment, including the CIA, FBI, and other intelligence agencies, as he discussed in an interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2358,"featured_media":2021556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}