The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

Summary

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?GuestsMolly White, Wikipedia editor for around 20 years. Independent writer.Stephen Harrison, freelance journalist who’s been writing about Wikipedia for 8 years. Tech lawyer. Author of the novel The Editors.Also FeaturedRachel Goodman, special counsel and team manager for Free Expression and the Right to Dissent at Protect Democracy.TranscriptPart IMEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Roughly a week ago, on September 11, the day after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, Wikipedia users noticed something new on the page for his widow Erika Kirk. At the top of the page was a gray box with a red stripe.ANTHONY PETERZZZ: Okay, so I'm going to show you something really strange about Erika Kirk's Wikipedia page. It has been nominated for deletion. That's fricking disturbing. That's really disturbing.CHAKRABARTI: A Wikipedia editor with the username, 'E pluribus unum, y'all' was recommending Erika Kirk's page be deleted. The editor wrote, "Article was created in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing yesterday, but coverage otherwise is either limited in nature (i.e. her participation in beauty pageants) or inherited from her husband."NICOLE APPROVES: This is on Fox News, Wikipedia debates deleting the profile page of Charlie Kirk's wife Erika. Editors are split on whether Charlie Kirk's widow has enough independent coverage to warrant entry, the liberal attempts to basically erase conservatives. You're all pathetic.JESSE ON FIRE: Why would they do that, if she's not notorious enough? Why are you even worried about it? And everyone knows who she is. You just don't like her. Okay? You are reprehensible, disgusting, evil people who are trying to cancel her and get rid of her because you are leftist.CHAKRABARTI: Stephen Harrison joins us now.He's a freelance journalist who's covered Wikipedia for almost a decade, and also a tech lawyer as well. He is with us ...