Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) pressed Wikipedia on Monday for information about how it maintains the online encyclopedia and addresses ideological bias amid growing conservative criticism of the site.

In a letter to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander, Cruz voiced concerns about potential left-wing bias within the widely used platform.

“Wikipedia began with a noble concept: crowdsource human knowledge using verifiable sources and make it free to the public. That’s what makes reports of Wikipedia’s systemic bias especially troubling,” the senator wrote.

“Its influence extends even further in the age of artificial intelligence, as every major large language model has been trained on the platform,” he added. “Wikipedia shapes what Americans read today and what te

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