Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter Friday to Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation which owns Wikipedia, requesting information about the site’s reported political bias. Cruz cited the ongoing purge of conservative media on the online encyclopedia and other bias concerns, following a viral interview commentator Tucker Carlson did with Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger last week where they discussed the site blacklisting conservative sources, including Breitbart.
Cruz’s request, first reported by the Hill, comes in the wake of an investigation into the site recently announced by the House Oversight Committee, requests for information from bi-partisan members of Congress, and an inquiry by Acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin. Unlike those requests, focused on the site’s anti-Israeli bias, Cruz’s request specifically centered on its left-wing bias.
In the letter dated October 3, 2025, Cruz cited his role as Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee’s “jurisdiction over communications, including online information platforms.” Cruz requested “information about ideological bias on the Wikipedia platform and at the Wikimedia Foundation.” R
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