Wikipedia Censored Information During US Elections and Covid

NPR CEO Kathryn Maher has once again reminded the cryptocurrency community to be suspicious of the mainstream media amid a scandal involving it.

The resignation of NPR's senior business editor, Yuri Berliner, has sent shock waves through the media industry. Politicians, activists and editors criticized NPR CEO and former Wikimedia CEO Mahern Berlin after he was chastised by the Free Press for criticizing NPR's coverage.

Some critics have moved to support the former NPR editor, activist Christopher Ruffo, who posted a video with Maher admitting Wikipedia censored certain information during the 2020 US elections and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Although the video is of an online discussion at the 2021 360/Open Summit at the Atlantic Council, Mahr's speech was circulated on the social media platform X Berliner during his resignation.

“We've taken a very proactive approach, not just to the final selection, but to how we've supported our editorial community as we deal with the global pandemic,” Maher said in the video.

The Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia's owner – admitted it had set up a “sort of data clearinghouse” in response to the election and the outbreak, so editors could work with the government to “identify threats”.

In the same speech, Maher said she sees the United States' First Amendment — or freedom of speech — as the “number one challenge.”

These speech protections, Maher continued, make it “difficult” to suppress “bad information” and “influencers who have built a real market economy around it.”

Mahr's confession has attracted the attention of prominent commentators, including X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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“This keeps getting crazier! The head of NPR hates the US Constitution,” Musk commented on Rufo's video posting. Musk also said he was not surprised that Wikipedia censored some information during the US election and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Maher's skepticism about free speech stands in stark contrast to recent comments by Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, who in 2011 In an April 17 interview with Tucker Carlson, he reiterated that freedom of speech is a top priority for Telegram.

Durov also said that he has zero “big assets” such as land or real estate, and that he prefers to hold Bitcoin (BTC) and cash because he cares about his independence and is focused on doing his best for Telegram.

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