Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia’s Nonprofit Status Over Alleged ‘Propaganda’

In scrubbing information about everything from official websites Vaccine From LGBT is the subject of health And the ongoing war with higher education, the Trump administration seems to have problems with freely available information that does not integrate with its special ideals. That war against knowledge seems to have expanded to Wikipedia. At the beginning of this week, a Trump employed atorney Sending a letter The Wikimedia Foundation accused of allowing the spread of promotion and threatening its non -profit dignity.

Letter – which sent the US Attorney Ed Martin, in charge of Colombia district and First received by the Free PressWickelges that Wikipedia Host Organization “Under Section 501 (C) (3) of the United States Code may be involved in multiple activities that may violate his obligations”-the law that allows the organization to handle the organization as non-profit.

Martin has accused the Wikimedia Foundation be reduced to the Foundation to maintain this dignity because Wikipedia “Wikipedia” is allowing foreign actors to manipulate and spread the information, “and” nationally and the East American leaders are allowed to rewrite other organizations, as well as other platforms. ” He also claimed that the Foundation Board was made up of “primarily foreign nationals” as it “wasting the interests of American taxpayers”.

In order to prevent anxiety of this concept, such as a more thin screen threat to adjust to the preferred version of the history, Martin requested several questions, including details, to prevent promotion and processes to prevent foreign influences. The Wikimedia Foundation is in response to the investigation of the Foundation until May 15.