Chris Demmons
Molly White"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."
Open Water Otter VE7GR🏳️🌈@molly0xfff The truth has a left wing bias...
GutterPoetryThe left wing has a truth bias, more like.
Solarbird 
@molly0xfff "Spoiler: the article will not be updated"?
Morten@molly0xfff "Provide any and all documents and communications—including emails, texts, or other digital messages—between any officer, employee, or agent of the Wikimedia Foundation and any officer, employee, or agent of the federal government since January 1, 2020."
Can he require that? Any FOI request like that would be denied (IANAL).
Edit: why isn't he asking the federal government?
@drgroftehauge this is just a “request”, not a subpoena, so no
humourmetom@molly0xfff The truth has a left-wing bias
The difference is that ABC already caved in.
llanciawn@molly0xfff Right wing bias projecting on Wikipedia
Stumpy The Mutt@molly0xfff He needs to spend a lot more time in Cancun.
Joyful Jonny@StumpyTheMutt @molly0xfff I'd rather he and all Republicans spent more time with CK.
Blamellors@molly0xfff Truth has a left -wing bias.
⁂ Kaleb@molly0xfff I would just love to see a pedantic reply with proposed edits, citation needed flags, weasel words flags, and more.
Eliot LearI think the appropriate response is
"Dear Mr. Cruz, do you or don't you believe in freedom of speech and freedom of the press?"
samiamsam
Blake C. Stacey@molly0xfff Not mentioned in the Ars Technica story is that the Manhattan Institute "research" was done with a chatbot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-07-04/Recent_research
Gaëtan Perrault@molly0xfff I know this is just one article and one example, but this is the energy we need consistently with the administration. Questions, not just reporting.
@gatesvp wholeheartedly agree
Kvn W@molly0xfff Guess what, "Ted"... They're fucking allowed to be biased, dumbass!
Scott D. Strader 😐@molly0xfff "Cruz acknowledged that the organization took action on the allegations of biased editing, but questioned its motives. "The Wikimedia Foundation has said it is taking steps to combat this editing campaign, raising further questions about the extent to which it is intervening in editorial decisions and to what end," Cruz wrote."
Cruz: "Look! Bad agents tried to bias an article."
WM: "We stopped them."
Cruz: "Ohhhhh, so we're suppressing free speech now..."
Marco Antoniotti@molly0xfff Reality has a left-wing bias.
Ewen Bell 📸
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@molly0xfff probably because science, math, literature, medicine, language all require progressive thinking in order to....IDK....be conservative? They can't decide if circumcision or Tylenol causes autism instead of, you know, neurobiological facts.