Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander has no interest in holding Kamala Harris accountable for recent devastating claims against her, including the claim that Harris plagiarized content from Wikipedia.
MRC Free Speech America reached out to Iskander and 10 other Wikimedia Foundation employees on Oct. 14 after Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo published evidence showing that Harris, the current Democratic presidential nominee, had plagiarized content from many sources for her 2009 book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. Iskander and her Wikipedia employees refused to respond to repeated MRC inquiries about content allegedly plagiarized from Wikipedia.
Rufo explained in the exposé that “according to Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian ‘plagiarism hunter’ who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world, Harris’s book contains more than a dozen ‘vicious plagiarism fragments.’” Rufo noted that Weber’s findings included material purportedly lifted from NBC News, a college press release, and of course, Wikipedia. Rufo further wrote that Harris not only copied Wikipedia’s language in one section but also came to an “unreliable conclusion” as a result of having utilized an “unreliable source” like Wikipedia.
Despite the news that Harris purportedly plagiarized from Wikipedia, Iskander did not come to the defense of her foundation. Before replacing radical leftist and current NPR CEO Kathleen Maher as Wikimedia Foundation CEO in 2022, Iskander worked as the Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood, an organization that butchers hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year. For example, according to Planned Parenthood’s own 2022-2023 report, they ended 392,715 unborn lives in just one year.
Even before refusing to respond to this damning Harris news, Wikipedia has demonstrated remarkable leftist bias under both Maher and Iskander. Under Maher, Wikipedia tilted so far to the left that Wikipedia founder Larry Singer criticized the online encyclopedia for its obvious lack of neutrality. Editors at Wikipedia have also, at different times, banned Breitbart and Newsmax as sources on the website. These editors have also heavily discouraged using Fox News as a source while demonizing satire website and Free Speech Alliance member The Babylon Bee.
Wikipedia’s history of bias includes a history of covering for the Biden-Harris administration. For example, Wikipedia editors allowed 116 edits to their “recession page,” in an apparent attempt to avoid embarrassing President Joe Biden and Harris with evidence of their economic failures. Wikipedia editors or users even shamelessly attached a label to the top of the page warning that an “outdated” version of the article was going viral. Wikipedia editors also egregiously permitted consultants connected to Hunter Biden to edit Hunter Biden’s page in an apparent attempt to improve his image.
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