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How a Wikipedia Became MAGA’s Latest Villain After Charlie Kirk’s Death
Over the past week, conservative media have turned up their fury toward the free encyclopedia to a degree rarely seen in its 24-year history.
Since then, right-wing commentators have begun to hammer familiar targets: universities supposedly corrupting the youth with liberal indoctrination, campus administrators who failed to protect free speech, and leftist online communities and a transgender individual allegedly connected to the accused shooter. That’s why Kirk’s page cites the New Yorker for his claim that university campuses are “islands of totalitarianism,” and WIRED for his declaration that passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “huge mistake.” Critics argue that Wikipedia cherry-picks “leftist” outlets, or that mainstream media skews left overall. The Fox News article about Erika Kirk’s entry mirrors another recent piece by Ashley Rindsberg, this time in the Free Press, about Wikipedia’s coverage of the killing of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death on a Charlotte, North Carolina, train in August, for which a man, Decarlos Brown Jr., has been charged.
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