After broad hairstyles in US government offices and significant discounts in health, social and educational sponsorships, the US Department of Justice, led by President Donald Trump, is targeting the Wikimedia Foundation in a way that threatens its status as a non -profit. American.
Last week, Wikimedia received a message from the veteran Republican political activist, appointed by Trump, which is ED Martin, the American Prosecutor in the province of Colombia, in which he accuses the institution of not fulfilling the requirements of its tax exemption, and claims that Wikipedia allows foreign manipulation of information, and reformulates the main historical events and the CVs of the leaders Americans, and other measures that “undermine the interests of the American taxpayers.” He argued that this “convincing propaganda” contradicts the Wikimedia educational message.
Martin also confirmed his message, which requests answers related to the liberation of Wikipedia and its efforts to prevent foreign influence, by responding by May 15th, that the Wikimedia Board of Directors “consists mainly of foreigners”, undermining the interests of American taxpayers. He claimed that she was involved in a series of activities that might constitute violations of the law of non -profit organizations, as part of a campaign launched by the Trump administration and its allies against institutions, media outlets and electronic platforms accused of promoting liberal agendas. The message, published by The Free Press for the first time, comes after the increasing conservative criticism of Lukeipidia, which creates and edits its content thousands of volunteers in the world.
A report issued last June by the “conservative” Manhattan Institute “inspired” inspired “on the presence of a” light to medium “left bias in the depiction of Wikipedia of American public figures. The Anti -Defamation Association (ADL) also accused Wikipedia of anti -Semitic bias and Israel, especially after it reduced the classification of its credibility in issues related to the Israeli -Palestinian conflict, where a source close to Martin told the newspaper that the electronic platform has “amendments to Wikipedia related to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, and it is clearly targeting Israel in favor of other countries” as he said.
Last Friday, Wikimedia issued a statement, confirming that it hosts more than 65 million reports created “for the media, not to persuade” and that its content is subject to policies that guarantee accuracy, fairness and impartiality as much as possible, with the participation of 260,000 volunteers in the editing process. As stated in the statement: “Our vision is a world that allows every person to participate freely in the sum of knowledge.”
Also last Friday, Molly White, the Wikimedia and well -known American critic, said that Martin’s message appears to be part of a wider effort made by the Trump administration and its allies to “arm the law” against high -quality independent information sources, based on that Martin had a history of sending similar threats. In recent weeks, he also sent messages to a number of major scientific journals, He accused her of political bias and excluding “conflicting views” from publishing.
Martin is the same official who threatened to take legal measures against publications criticizing employees in the “Ministry of Government Efficiency”, led by Elon Musk, who is constantly criticizing “Wikipedia”, and is called Wokedia, manipulating the American colloquial term Woke, accusing it of “an extension of ancient media propaganda” as he put it.
