Emails from Hunter Biden suggest that the son of now-President Joe Biden paid thousands of dollars to a public relations firm to scrub his Wikipedia page of several unflattering details about his personal life and business ties.
Paying someone to alter the pages that are presented as fact and often the first result to pop up in a search about a person, place, or thing seems like a practice that should be prohibited. Wikipedia, however, does nothing to stop outside influences from lacing its articles with propaganda. Instead, it has an effectively unenforceable policy that paid editing must be disclosed by the person making the edits.
As previously reported by The Federalist, Wikipedia partners with Big Tech companies like Google to maintain a quiet monopoly on internet knowledge. This power alliance has become increasingly worrisome in recent years since, as Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger recounted in an interview in 2021, “The days of Wikipedia’s robust commitment to neutrality are long gone.”
Any user who wants to manipulate a Wikipedia page to fit his agenda can do that as long as it slips through the company’s host of left-leaning administrators. That is exactly what happened in 2014 when the younger Biden decided he wanted a public facelift.
Hunter Biden’s emails show that he worked extensively w/secretive PR firms to scrub Wikipedia for himself & his Ukrainian clients. The consultants used fake accounts to edit unflattering details, add positive spin. One added “minor mistakes” to make edits appear more
