The speech wars have come for Wikipedia, said in The Wall Street Journal . “For many, it is the modern-day encyclopedia—a site written and edited by volunteers that aims to offer, as Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales once said, free access to ‘the sum of all human knowledge.’” But prominent voices on the Right, including Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson, talk as if it is “fueled by mainstream media lies” and “pumping out propaganda.” In theory, Wikipedia articles rely on published research and must “have a neutral point of view.” But exactly “how those policies are enforced” is a subject of fierce debate.

We didn’t have “source blacklists” when it started, said in The Free Press . I co-launched Wikipedia with Wales in 2001 to be “a global smorgasbord of thinking,” reflecting “widely

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