BAD GIRL MEDIA

BAD GIRL MEDIA

Wikipedia turns 25: The quiet death of neutrality

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stepfanie tyler
Jan 15, 2026
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I'll do my own research, thanks.

“Wikipedia is badly biased. The days of Wikipedia’s robust commitment to neutrality are long gone.”

That’s not a quote by some right-wing pundit. That’s Larry Sanger—Wikipedia’s co-founder—the man who helped shape the site’s Neutral Point of View policy1 from the beginning. He’s been saying versions of this since 2010, and by 2020, he’d declared the principle he created effectively dead.

When the architect says the building is collapsing, you might want to pay attention.

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