Oversight Committee Probes Wikipedia for Bias
28th August 2025
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has started an investigation into alleged organized attempts to inject bias into Wikipedia entries and the organization’s responses, The Hill reported Wednesday.
Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., chair of the panel’s subcommittee on cybersecurity, information technology and government innovation, on Wednesday sent an information request concerning the issue to Maryana Iskander, chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia.
In a letter containing the request, the legislators wrote that the committee is probing “the efforts of foreign operations and individuals at academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars to influence U.S. public opinion.”
That Wikipedia is biased in a Woke direction is obvious to the most casual observer.
That this is any business of the government is less obvious. I see no reason for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to concern themselves with something that isn’t oversight of a government entity or related to government reform. We have to break these people of sticking their noses into the affairs of private organizations whenever they get the itch, although I suspect that anything short of the public impalement of Senator Lindsey Graham will be effective.