Wikipedia has been accused of boycotting conservative media outlets while “widely citing” left-wing media outlets.
Conservative organisation The Media Research Center released a report on Wikipedia’s list of “reliable sources”.
The document said that all right-leaning US news sites had failed to meet the free encyclopedia’s criteria as a trusted resource.
These included news sites such as the New York Post, Breitbart News, The Daily Caller and Newsmax.
Wikipedia largely cited left-leaning organisations as reliable
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However, Wikipedia largely cited left-leaning organisations as reliable, such as NPR, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Mother Jones and ProPublica.
Dan Schneider, the centre’s vice-president said in a statement: “Wikipedia has now become the joke.
“Its radical editors and staff reveal their contempt for conservatives in almost everything they inject into descriptions.”
Wikipedia was founded in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as a free resource, regularly updated by a group of volunteers which relied on public donations to operate.
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The website has a page titled “Reliable sources/Perennial sources,” where it uses a traffic light system to grade sources as either generally reliable, no consensus, generally unreliable, discouraged from use and blacklisted.
The people who are in charge of determining the credibility of sources are Wikipedia’s editors.
The New York Post’s editorial board released an article urging big tech companies to block Wikipedia until it stops “censoring and pushing disinformation”.
“For Wikipedia, ‘true’ is now synonymous with ‘left wing’,” the editorial board claimed.
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of the site, wrote that Musk was unhappy only because Wikipedia was not for sale
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Elon Musk has been a vocal voice against Wikipedia in recent months, claiming the site allegedly misrepresents him and promotes left-wing ideologies.
On January 21, he posted about the free encyclopedia several times after his page was edited to include a reference to an alleged Nazi salute he made during Trump’s presidential inauguration.
The billionaire even went as far as to offer $1billion to change the name to “Dickipedia”, writing: “Defund Wikipedia until balance is restored.”
Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of the site, wrote that Musk was unhappy only because Wikipedia was not for sale.
“If Elon wanted to help, he’d be encouraging kind and thoughtful intellectual people he agrees with to engage,” Wales said.
Wikipedia was the fourth-most-visited website in the world in November, according to Semrush, a digital marketing platform.
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