Entries on the internet “encyclopedia” Wikipedia were edited to highlight confirmation hurdles for several top Trump Cabinet nominees in the latest example of liberal online platforms attempting to smear conservatives, according to a media watchdog.
The entries for FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, intelligence czar Tulsi Gabbard, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were spun negatively prior to their confirmation hearings, said the analysis by the Media Research Center and shared with Secrets.
“Shortly after President Donald Trump announced key cabinet nominees, Wikipedia editors changed their pages in an apparent attempt to highlight damaging information. The editors appear to have carefully timed these cunning changes to be made during the lead-up to the confirmation process when the Trump nominees were under the microscope,” said the analysis from MRC’s Free Speech America arm.
MRC studied the entries on the “infamously biased online encyclopedia” before and after President Donald Trump made his picks, and substantial changes were noted.
In most cases, negative reports about the nominees were highlighted and embellished, while positive stories were downgraded or simply eliminated.
In one example highlighted in the report, some of the heroic medals Hegseth had been awarded disappeared from his entry.
Even budget director Russell Vought got the Wiki treatment in the form of spinning his personal life negatively.
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MRC’s Dan Schneider, the vice president of Free Speech America, said, “Wikipedia has created an operational structure that places only radical leftists in positions of authority. Additionally, the online encyclopedia has created a blacklist to prevent any right-of-center outlets from being cited, which is crucial since Wikipedia functions exclusively on citations.”