The Wikipedia Flood

Wikipedia's high poobahs, its "arbitration committee," is being asked to look into offsite coordination of pro-Hamas editing. Everyone knows it's going on. There's mountains of evidence, but as i point out, they'd rather swallow rusty nails. thewikipediaflood.blogspot.com/2024/11/report…

The Israeli-American Podcast: Wikipedia’s War on Truth x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Fortunately Wikipedia stands between the innocent, brave fighters of Hamas and those lying Israelis. Here we see a looooooooooooooooong article on the "beheaded babies hoax." Foiled again, those dastardly Zionists! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_bab…

In 2012, novelist Philip Roth discovered a "serious misstatement" about one of his books on @Wikipedia. Wikipedia claimed Roth's book "The Human Stain" was inspired by the life of writer Anatole Broyard. Roth said this was "in no way substantiated by fact." He should know: he wrote it. The "Human Stain" was actually inspired (Roth said) by his friend Melvin Tumin, a Princeton professor who had died not long before. Roth wrote: "I’ve never known, spoken to, or, to my knowledge, been in the company of a single member of Broyard’s family. I did not even know whether he had children.... "I never took a meal with Broyard, never went with him to a bar or a ballgame or a dinner party or a restaurant, never saw him at a party I might have attended back in the sixties when I was living in Manhattan and on rare occasions socialized at a party. "I never watched a movie or played cards with him or showed up at a single literary event with him as either a participant or a spectator. As far as I know, we did not live anywhere in the vicinity of each other during the ten or so years in the late fifties and the sixties when I was living and writing in New York and he was a book reviewer and cultural critic for the New York Times. "I never ran into him accidentally in the street...We never bothered to have a serious conversation....I never learned from Broyard who were his friends or his enemies, did not know where or when he had been born and raised, knew nothing about his economic status in childhood or as an adult, knew nothing of his politics or his favorite sports teams or if he had any interest in sports at all." Roth contacted a Wikipedia official, who put him in touch with a site admin, hoping to get it rectified, and Roth wrote a letter to the admin (probably by typewriter). The admin responded that he, Philip Roth, "was not a credible source" on Philip Roth—and told him to find a secondary source! Unbelievably, the Wikipedia article still today contains the claim about Anatole Broyard: "In the reviews of the book in both the daily and the Sunday New York Times in 2000, Kakutani and Lorrie Moore suggested that the central character of Coleman Silk might have been inspired by Anatole Broyard, a well-known New York literary editor of the Times." All this sounds unnervingly like a passage from a Philip Roth novel—with a healthy pinch of Kafka. And yet it so perfectly encapsulates the absurdities that lie at the heart of Wikipedia. "Secondary sources"—i.e. the New York Times and co—are deemed better arbiters of Roth's fictional reality than Roth himself. The reason is that on anything political, cultural or social, Wikipedia is a wrapper for the mainstream media. If the media says it's true, it's considered true by Wikipedia. If the media says it's false, it's considered false by Wikipedia. Do you trust Wikipedia? (h/t @lsanger for bringing my attention to this insane story.)

The knowledgebase poisoning of Wikipedia has finally gained mainstream traction. But the investigative journalist who toiled to get the story out, Aaron Bandler @bandlersbanter, has not received recognition for his work in recent high-profile exposure of the scandal. Factually, he has been one of the most consistent and prolific reporters covering this theme since May 2024, when Bandler began publishing investigative reports on the manipulative tactics and sourcing abuses by Wikipedia editors pushing anti-Israel bias. His first major report, Seven Tactics Wikipedia Editors Used to Spread Anti-Israel Bias Since Oct. 7 (May 23, 2024), broke ground: jewishjournal.com/cover_story/37… From there, he produced a steady series of investigations. By late August 2025, the House Oversight Committee launched a formal investigation into organized manipulation of Wikipedia, demanding documentation by September 10. Yet even as his reporting set the stage for congressional scrutiny, and broad exposure, Aaron Bandler’s name has remained unmentioned in recent reporting. Aaron—thank you for your tireless investigative work and scrutiny. You deserve acknowledgment. June 2024 jewishjournal.com/news/united-st… July 2024 jewishjournal.com/news/united-st… September 2024 jewishjournal.com/commentary/opi… jewishjournal.com/commentary/opi… jewishjournal.com/commentary/opi… October 2024 jewishjournal.com/community/3757… jewishjournal.com/news/united-st… November 2024 jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide… January 2025 jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide… jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide… jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide… March 2025 jewishjournal.com/cover_story/38… jewishjournal.com/news/380108/wi… jewishjournal.com/news/united-st… April 2025 jewishjournal.com/news/worldwide… June 2025 realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/… jns.org/hypocrisy-doub… jns.org/recurring-tren… July 2025 jns.org/wikipedia-citi…

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into @Wikipedia over foreign-backed efforts to manipulate public opinion, demanding records from CEO Maryana Iskander on anti-Israel and antisemitic bias tied to U.S.-funded academic institutions.

Wikipedia is facing is biggest threat in years. One that could potentially force the site to rethink its policies on its most critical and sensitive articles: Biographies of living persons (BLPs). Wikipedia recently lost a libel case in an EU court. Earlier, this month Wikimedia Foundation complied with the court order by removing highly inflammatory claims and allegations from an article on American-Portuguese businessman named Cesar DePaço. Read the full story – and why this could change the entire information landscape – at @PirateWires.

Three days ago, it was revealed here that Ravan Al-Taie was selected as one of six finalists for @Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, despite posting hate-speech. Today, her X account was deleted. Screenshots of her biased/alternative reality posts ("Jesus was Palestinian") remain.

Stop it! Don't you dare call the Aleppo Pogrom of 1947 a pogrom! Not on Wikipedia. At the "encyclopedia everyone can edit," thanks to a massive number of Jew-hating editors, massacres of Jews aren't massacres. My latest blog post: thewikipediaflood.blogspot.com/2025/07/dont-y…