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Wikipedia’s founder on his life’s work: "A propaganda tool"<br>Internet censorship
Published October 1, 2025<br>– By Editorial staff
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Larry Sanger believes that Wikipedia has been kidnapped and presents nine measures to "save" the encyclopedia.
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Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, presents nine radical theses to save his life's work from what he calls ideological kidnapping.
In a comprehensive interview with Tucker Carlson, he reveals that anonymous editors can defame with impunity, that conservative news sources are systematically blocked, and that intelligence services have manipulated the encyclopedia's content.
Larry Sanger, the philosopher who together with Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia in 2001, paints a grim picture of what has happened to the world's largest encyclopedia. In Tucker Carlson's interview, published on X, he describes how the encyclopedia he created to bring together people with different perspectives has now become a propaganda tool.
— Wikipedia became a weapon of ideological theological war, used to destroy its enemies, Sanger states in the interview.
Tucker Carlson, who himself discovers during the interview that he is described as "a leading voice of white grievance politics" in his Wikipedia article, expresses his frustration over the platform's development.
— I have sent money, like significant money to Wikipedia because I was so thrilled by its existence, Carlson recounts and continues:
— Now it's like the leading source of dishonesty or I would say disinformation. They lie. They leave out key information.
Left early – saw where it was heading
Sanger left Wikipedia as early as 2002, explaining that he saw early signs that Jimmy Wales was allowing "troublemakers and left-wing activists" to take over the platform.
— The left has its march through the institutions. And when Wikipedia appeared, it was one of the institutions that they marched through, Sanger observes.
The original neutrality principle, which Sanger himself formulated, has according to him been distorted into its opposite. Where they previously strived to present all significant perspectives fairly, terms like "minority opinions" and "conspiracy theories" are now used to exclude certain viewpoints.
85 percent anonymous power holders
One of the interview's most astonishing revelations concerns the identity of Wikipedia's editors. According to Sanger's investigation, 85 percent of the 62 most powerful accounts on Wikipedia are anonymous.
— We don't know who they are. They can libel people with impunity, because they're anonymous, says Sanger.
Tucker Carlson compares the situation to if history professors at Harvard and Yale suddenly refused to give their names:
— If all of a sudden every history professor at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, et cetera, decided, I'm not telling you my name, as I teach your kids about the Renaissance or whatever, we would say, that's freaking nuts.
Larry Sanger built Wikipedia as an unbiased repository of the world’s knowledge, and then stood helplessly by as activists and intel agencies turned it into the most comprehensive propaganda op in human history. There’s nothing more corrupt.
(0:00) The Origins of Wikipedia… pic.twitter.com/J59oEejCG2
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 29, 2025
Blacklisted news sources
Wikipedia has maintained since 2017 a list of "recurring sources" that in practice functions as an ideological blacklist. During the interview, Carlson goes through the list and discovers that while The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN get the green light, sources like Fox News, Daily Caller, Breitbart and New York Post are blacklisted.
— You can't cite New York Post on Wikipedia as a factual source, Sanger confirms.
He points out the irony that this blacklist was established the same year Donald Trump took office as president.
Intelligence services' influence
Both Carlson and Sanger discuss the possibility that intelligence services manipulate Wikipedia. Sanger tells about research from 2006-2007 that showed edits made from IP addresses in Langley,...