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Wikipedia:Press coverage 2025

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Since its inception in 2001, Wikipedia has garnered substantial media attention. The following is a list of the project's press coverage received in 2025, sorted chronologically. Per WP:PRESS, this page excludes coverage exclusively on a single WP-article, coverage of (some aspect of) the project overall is wanted.

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  • Schneider, Dan; Cornelio, Luis (February 3, 2025). "Wikipedia's Blacklist: Smearing Trump, Conservatives, And The GOP". The Daily Wire. Retrieved February 3, 2025. The bottom line: 84% of Left-leaning outlets have Wikipedia's stamp of approval, while 0% of right-leaning outlets even get a wink from the tech giant.
  • Cornelio, Luis (February 3, 2025). "EXCLUSIVE: Wikipedia Effectively Blacklists ALL Right-Leaning Media; Smearing Trump, GOP and Conservatives". NewsBusters. Retrieved February 3, 2025. Wikipedia warns that if "no such source exists, that may suggest that the information is inaccurate." In other words, the only media reports that are considered trustworthy are those reported by leftist, legacy media.
  • Joseph, MacKinnon (February 4, 2025). "Wikipedia blacklists Blaze News and other right-leaning sources, ensuring it's a one-stop liberal propaganda shop". Blaze Media. Retrieved February 5, 2025. It's no secret that Wikipedia's volunteer editors are predominantly ideological myopes favorable to leftist causes, ideas, and personalities and antipathetic to conservatives of various stripes.
  • Harrison, Stephen (February 5, 2025). "Project 2025's Creators Want to Dox Wikipedia Editors. The Tool They're Using Is Horrifying". Slate. Retrieved February 5, 2025. It seems that both the CCP and Heritage believe that if you can't win an argument in the digital space of Wikipedia, it's fair game to destroy that person's life offline.
  • "Big Tech must block Wikipedia until it stops censoring and pushing disinformation". New York Post. February 5, 2025. Retrieved February 6, 2025. The source blacklist has zero to do with accuracy and everything to do with shutting down any journalist who doesn't bend the knee to the left. And stifling any discourse not approved by progressive would-be overlords in biz and government and the NGO sector. In other words, Wikipedia is engaged in an actual disinformation op.
  • Carroll, Tobias (February 5, 2025). "How Long Can Wikipedia Hold On?". InsideHook. Retrieved February 6, 2025. I think that there's this political-industrial complex right now where everything is being politicized, right? And the right wing has an interest in portraying Wikipedia as left-wing and a kind of liberal media. ... But if I had to guess, I think it's going to get worse before it gets better in terms of partisan rhetoric about Wikipedia.
  • Shroff, Lila (February 5, 2025). "Elon Musk Wants What He Can't Have: Wikipedia". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 6, 2025. Wikipedia is certainly not immune to bad information, disagreement, or political warfare, but its openness and transparency rules have made it a remarkably reliable platform in a decidedly unreliable age. Evidence that it's an outright propaganda arm of the left, or of any political party, is thin.
  • Hurley, Bevan (February 6, 2025). "Wikipedia accused of blacklisting conservative US media". The Times. Retrieved February 7, 2025. The Media Research Center, a conservative organisation, released a report on the free online encyclopedia's list of "reliable sources". The report said that all the US news sites the centre categorised as right-leaning had failed to meet Wikipedia's criteria as a trusted resource for administrators.
  • Kanevskaya, Sofya (February 6, 2025). "Online lifeline". Novaya Gazeta. Retrieved February 9, 2025. Even Wikipedia recognises the gravity of the situation its contributors in Belarus now face, to the extent that they have overridden their own protocols and deleted the entire edit history for Belarus-related articles that could land its users in trouble.
  • Prosser, Jordan (February 10, 2025). "Want to know how the world ends? Try this Wikipedia page". The Guardian. Retrieved February 14, 2025. As you scroll through the 2020s, though, you'll notice that the pages keep going: 2026, 2027, 2028 and so on. The reliably dull Wikipedia interface remains unchanged, even as recorded history cedes to speculative history.
  • Koebler, Jason (February 11, 2025). "Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies". 404 Media. Retrieved February 15, 2025. In a series of calls and letters to the Wikimedia community over the last two weeks, Wikimedia executives have told editors that they are trying to figure out how to keep their users safe in an increasingly hostile political environment.
  • Rao, Devika (February 13, 2025). "Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding". The Week. Retrieved February 15, 2025. Elon Musk has started a war on Wikipedia after the outlet made reference to his gesture at Trump's inauguration, which many have compared to the Nazi salute. While Wikipedia did not directly accuse Musk of doing a Nazi salute, he still flagged the organization for being far-left, previously calling it "Wokepedia."
  • "Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation accused of targeting Wikipedia editors". Moneycontrol.com. February 13, 2025. Retrieved February 15, 2025. In response, Wikimedia is rolling out new security measures. One major change is the temporary accounts program, which will prevent unregistered editors' IP addresses from being visible to the public.


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