{"id":1900,"date":"2026-04-01T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/1900\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:45:21","slug":"how-a-handful-of-woke-wikipedia-editors-are-trying-to-erase-the-post-and-other-outlets-that-dont-align-with-their-worldview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/1900\/","title":{"rendered":"How a handful of woke Wikipedia editors are trying to erase The Post and other outlets that don\u2019t align with their worldview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Zohran Mamdani, with his wife Rama Duwaji, casts his ballot on Election Day 2025, Image 2 shows A magnifying glass over a computer screen showing the Wikipedia homepage<\/p>\n

Wikipedia editors are helping politicians like Zohran Mamdani \u2014 and censoring outlets like The New York Post \u2014 by editing scandals out of entries.<\/p>\n

For years, Mamdani has built relationships with the most radical groups in America. Before being elected mayor of New York City, he even went so far as to give a shout-out in one of the rap videos<\/a> he recorded to five men convicted of financing Hamas \u2014 men who were held liable in federal court <\/a>for the murder of a boy from New York City.<\/p>\n

But Mamdani also has a solution, one afforded to far-left politicians: the media.<\/p>\n

When The Post first broke the news of his infamous rap, mainstream media outlets ignored his pro-terror shoutout and instead focused on the cringe-inducing music, which Rolling Stone gushed over and Washington Post analyzed as part of his millennial bona fides.<\/p>\n

\"Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Wikipedia editors are helping politicians like Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji \u2014 and censoring outlets like The New York Post \u2014 by editing scandals out of entries. James Keivom<\/p>\n

What few realize is that this ideological Iron Dome doesn\u2019t stop with the press. It extends into the infrastructure of information itself: Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

In the early 2000s, Wikipedia was a novelty website that quickly evolved into the internet\u2019s public square for shared knowledge. Today, it\u2019s far more than that. Its data is training the AI systems that will determine our collective future. The thousands of seemingly insignificant editorial decisions by a small group of volunteer editors add up to a cohesive worldview \u2014 one that is shaping how our most advanced AI systems see the world.<\/p>\n

A look at some key pages on the site reveals the lengths to which Wikipedia editors are willing to go to shape Mamdani\u2019s public image \u2014 and, critically, that of his wife, Rama Duwaji. Over the past weeks, disturbing revelations have surfaced that the now first lady of New York City liked pro-Hamas social media posts<\/a> in the wake of October 7.<\/p>\n

A report by the Washington Free Beacon<\/a> found that Duwaji created a post on blogging site Tumblr with the photo of PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled<\/a>, with a caption echoing Khaled\u2019s own words: \u201cIf it does good for my cause, I\u2019ll be happy to accept death.\u201d Duwaji also liked posts claiming that mass rapes committed by Hamas during the group\u2019s genocidal rampage through Israel were \u201cfabrications.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Rama<\/p>\n

Rama Duwaji, the first lady of New York City, liked posts claiming that mass rapes committed by Hamas during the group\u2019s genocidal rampage through Israel were \u201cfabrications.\u201d But on Wikipedia \u2014 and in the AI systems that increasingly rely on it \u2014 these details don\u2019t disappear. They\u2019re filtered, softened or reframed. @zei_squirrel \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

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The first line of the \u201cControversies\u201d section of Duwaji\u2019s Wikipedia page simple states that she liked posts \u201csupportive of the Palestinian cause\u201d after October 7. Wikipedia<\/p>\n

She was also found to have used the n-word<\/a> as well as a noxious slur against gay people. In the moral milieu of the left from which Mamdani and Duwaji hail, statements like these are disqualifying.<\/p>\n

But on Wikipedia \u2014 and in the AI systems that increasingly rely on it \u2014 these details don\u2019t disappear. They\u2019re filtered, softened or reframed.<\/p>\n

A look at Duwaji\u2019s Wikipedia page<\/a> shows how that works. The first line of the \u201cControversies\u201d section states that she liked posts \u201csupportive of the Palestinian cause\u201d after October 7.<\/p>\n

To be clear, Duwaji liked dozens of pro-Hamas posts tied to October 7 \u2014 some of the most extreme messaging circulating online at the time. But Wikipedia editors strip out that context and replace it with something safer, blander and far less accurate.<\/p>\n

\"Rama<\/p>\n

Rama Duwaji liked dozens of pro-Hamas posts tied to October 7 \u2014 some of the most extreme messaging circulating online at the time. But Wikipedia editors stripped out that context and replaced it on her page with something safer, blander and far less accurate. Instagram\/@ramaduwaji<\/p>\n

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In old social media posts, Duwaji was also found to have used the n-word as well as a noxious slur against gay people.<\/p>\n

It gets worse. A single Wikipedia editor, IvanScrooge98, used a series of bureaucratic maneuvers in an attempt to keep these claims off Duwaji\u2019s article altogether. The editor argued that, because The Post reported on these events, they weren\u2019t worthy of inclusion.<\/p>\n

Referring to The Post, IvanScrooge wrote: \u201cIf we need to cherrypick specific information \u2026 we shouldn\u2019t even be using [that source].\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Wikipedia classifies The Post as \u201cgenerally unreliable\u201d \u2014 effectively sidelining it as a source.<\/p>\n

While this seems targeted, the reality is that it\u2019s part of a broader structural bias against conservative sources on the site, which blacklists outlets like Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax, Epoch Times and the the DailyWire. Outlets on the left \u2014\u00a0no matter how far \u2014 like the Guardian, the Nation and the New Republic are blessed with a \u201cGenerally reliable\u201d rating.<\/p>\n

\"Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Wikipedia editor IvanScrooge98 used a series of bureaucratic maneuvers to keep these claims about Duwaji\u2019s old posts off her article page. The editor argued that, because The Post reported on these events, they weren\u2019t worthy of inclusion: \u201cIf we need to cherrypick specific information \u2026 we shouldn\u2019t even be using [that source].\u201d Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Even Chinese state media, like the CCP\u2019s own China Daily, gets a high ranking (\u201csomewhat reliable\u201d). Al Jazeera, controlled by Qatar, an autocratic state ruled by the Al Thani royal family, is blessed with a \u201cgenerally reliable rating.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is how Wikipedia \u2014 the site millions trust for quick facts \u2014 is quietly shaping what you\u2019re allowed to see.<\/p>\n

On the page of Rama Duwaji, IvanScrooge98 repeatedly stepped in to shape the narrative. At one point, he waved off sourced reporting as a smear. In another, he dismissed edits as \u201cZionist vandalism\u201d and claimed the information was only controversial \u201cif you support persecuting Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post has reached out to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, for comment.<\/p>\n

\"Before<\/p>\n

Before being elected mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani gave a shout-out in one of his rap videos (above) to the Holy Land Five, who were convicted of financing Hamas and held liable in federal court for murder. After The Post reported on it, mainstream media outlets ignored his pro-terror shoutout to focused on the cringe-inducing music, YouTube\/Mr. Cardamom<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just about New York City politics. In January, my reporting uncovered thousands of images<\/a> and videos created by Iranian state media sources linked to the IRGC and uploaded to Wikipedia. I\u2019ve found over 20,000 citations on the site using IRGC-linked state media as sources, and over 8,000 citations using sources linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad \u2014 as well as around 100 citations of Al-Qaeda-linked media.<\/p>\n

Behind the IvanScrooge account might be a real person. Or there might be something more coordinated, along the lines of an anti-Israel Wikipedia influence operation I exposed that is run by a well-resourced activism group called Tech For Palestine.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s clear is that this is not a good-faith attempt at achieving balance.<\/p>\n

Instead, the account is part of a group of highly ideological editors working to push a far-left, anti-US, anti-Israel agenda. One small but representative example: IvanScrooge scrubbed the terms \u201cmurderer\u201d and \u201cterrorist\u201d from an image of Che Guevara, a revolutionary icon linked to executions and political violence.<\/p>\n

\"Wikipedia<\/p>\n

Wikipedia classifies The Post as \u201cgenerally unreliable\u201d \u2014 effectively sidelining it as a source. Outlets on the left \u2014 no matter how far \u2014 like the Guardian, the Nation and the New Republic are blessed with a \u201cGenerally reliable\u201d rating. GoodPics \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s own page<\/a> is no better.<\/p>\n

His praise for the Holy Land Five \u2014 men convicted in a major terrorism financing case \u2014 is softened into a bland line about people who were merely \u201carrested and connected\u201d to a certain foundation. Far from \u201carrested and connected,\u201d these men, all senior operatives in Hamas\u2019 far-reaching network, were convicted for channeling charity funds to Hamas in what remains the largest terror financing criminal trial in US history. The \u201carrested\u201d men received sentences ranging from 15 to 65 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n

If a story comes from a conservative outlet, it gets treated as guilty until proven innocent by Wikipedia editors. A familiar protocol is activated. Editors demand extra sourcing, with the assumption that a right-of-center source is simply invalid. The inclusion of the information gets delayed. There is debate and discussion. Information coming from the other side of the ideological spectrum sails through.<\/p>\n

\"When<\/p>\n

When The Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, Big Tech didn\u2019t debate it. They simply buried the story, blocked links, locked accounts and killed off any chances this piece of major breaking news had to inform voters looking to make their decision in the presidential election that was just days away. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s similar to how, when The Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020<\/a>, Big Tech didn\u2019t debate it. They simply buried the story<\/a>, blocked links, locked accounts and killed off any chances this piece of major breaking news had to inform voters looking to make their decision in the presidential election that was just days away.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of this censorship debacle<\/a>, we were told that this was a one-off affair \u2014 a kind of lapse, a one-time case of overreach that wouldn\u2019t happen again. In reality, the censoring of The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden reporting became a template that is put to use on Wikipedia every single day.<\/p>\n

What gets reported by the Post and a range of important conservative-leaning outlets is instantly memory-holed by a system that\u2019s been designed to do just that. It\u2019s the equivalent of sending unwanted email straight to spam, regardless of whether the reporting is accurate, relevant or \u2014 let\u2019s not forget \u2014 newsworthy.<\/p>\n

If the inputs into what is quickly shaping up to be humanity\u2019s most powerful information architecture are skewed \u2014 if they are deliberately curated on sites like Wikipedia to boost one side of the political aisle and redact to erase another \u2014 the output will be too. And we\u2019ve already seen where that leads and who it protects: politicians like Zohran Mamdani whose records are being quietly rewritten in ways that even the most expensive Manhattan PR firms could have once only imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Zohran Mamdani, with his wife Rama Duwaji, casts his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[2585,560,1058,2587,2588,2584,2014,2586,553],"class_list":{"0":"post-1900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zohran-mamdani","8":"tag-hamas","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-post","11":"tag-rama-duwaji","12":"tag-social-media-posts","13":"tag-washington-post","14":"tag-wikipedia","15":"tag-wikipedia-editors","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116329992832560846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}