Wikipedia, one of the many resources used by the US deep state and its allies in the intelligence community, has become an instrument of "control", according to Larry Sanger, co-founder of the site, in an interview with the journalist Glenn Greenwald.

Speaking on Glenn Greenwald's "System Update" podcast, Sanger laments how the site he helped create in 2001 has become an instrument of manipulation in the hands of the left-liberal establishment, including the CIA, FBI and other US intelligence agencies.

"We have evidence that as early as 2008, CIA and FBI computers were being used to modify Wikipedia," he said. “Do you think they stopped doing it at that time? »

CIA and FBI activity on Wikipedia was first made public in 2007 by a programming student named Virgil Griffith. Griffith developed a program called WikiScanner that could track the location of computers used to edit Wikipedia articles, and discovered that the CIA, FBI, and many large corporations and government agencies were cleaning the online encyclopedia of compromising information.

CIA computers were used to suppress accounts of victims of the Iraq war, while an FBI computer was used to suppress aerial and satellite images of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. CIA computers were used to edit hundreds of articles, including those on former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's nuclear program and the Argentine navy.

Some edits were more trivial, with former CIA chief William Colby apparently editing his own entry to expand his list of accomplishments.

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