Wikipedia Co-Founder Criticizes Site, Says It Has Slid Into ‘Leftist Propaganda’

Larry Sanger criticized Wikipedia, suggesting that it has recently moved to “follow the news media.”
Wikipedia Co-Founder Criticizes Site, Says It Has Slid Into ‘Leftist Propaganda’
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia and former philosophy professor, among stacks of reference books at a library in Columbus, Ohio, on March 26, 2007. Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo
Isabel van Brugen
Jan Jekielek
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Wikipedia has in recent years drifted away from neutrality and slid into “leftist propaganda,” according to its co-founder Larry Sanger.

Sanger, who parted ways with Wikipedia almost two decades ago over the project’s direction, told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders“ that the online encyclopedia, which turned 20 years old earlier this year, has gradually shifted to follow the narrative of “the news media.”
Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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