Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

[applegrove]

Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

Jon Brodkin – 6 Oct 2025 16:45 | 226

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia alleging a pattern of liberal bias in articles on the collaborative encyclopedia.

"I write to request information about ideological bias on the Wikipedia platform and at the Wikimedia Foundation," Cruz wrote to Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander in a letter dated October 3. "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."

Citing research from the conservative Manhattan Institute, Cruz wrote that "researchers have found that articles on the site often reflect a left-wing bias." Cruz alleged that "bias is particularly evident in Wikipedia's reliable sources/perennial sources list" because it describes "MSNBC and CNN as 'generally reliable' sources, while listing Fox News as a 'generally unreliable' source for politics and science. The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center gets a top rating, but the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank, is a 'blacklisted' and 'deprecated' source that Wikipedia's editors have determined 'promotes disinformation.'"

Cruz asked for "documents sufficient to show how the Wikimedia Foundation or the Wikipedia Community determines the categorization of sources on the reliable sources/perennial sources list." A Wikipedia page says the categorization is "determined through public discussion and consensus," and that Fox News had its rating lowered in 2020 "because Fox News downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic, because of allegations that it spread misinformation about climate change, and because it reported on the false concept of 'no-go zones' for non-Muslims in British cities."

Applegrove:

thanks to my cousin for the suggestion.

[Celerity]

1. Fuck off Ted, fuck off hard. True wanker.

[msongs]

2. how is it regulated by the feds so as to be in violation of any thing ? nt

[ImNotGod]

3. Just the opposite, it is well known that RW money has been used to pay people, like putin troll farms, to change

wiki info to be more RW friendly. I read about that years ago, they even trained them in classes.

[oasis]

4. Ted Cruz demands answers? Good luck.

You’re not in charge of shit Teddy boy, with the possible exception of your personal staff of ass kissers.

Best you go on about your business before your feelings get hurt.

[Botany]

5. Fuck off Ted Cruz. Facts have a well known "liberal bias."

BTW Fox News was founded on and its business plan is based on lying to the American people.
Roger Ailes started Fox because he thought Nixon could have stayed in power with an alternative media
media source. Fox is cancer on America.

[iemanja]

6. These MAGAs are so small minded.

[DFW]

7. If an objective investigation is conducted into the reliability of Fox vs MSNBC

I.e. NOT by “the Manhattan Institute” or some other outfit with a foregone right wing conclusion, Cruz-you-lose might not like what the result of such an investigation is.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Hey Ted! The supposed "Left-Wing Bias" is actually ACCURATE FACTS

and information.

When you and your minions can present factual contrary information, have at it.

[Paladin]

9. Eat shit, Cruz.

Then catch a flight to Cancun, and don't come back.