How biased Wikipedia trashed Trumps nominees after he named them

In its latest act of partisan truth-twisting, Wikipedia took a blowtorch to the reputations of President Donald Trump’s nominees for his Cabinet.The partisan ploy failed to derail them, but it exposed the sinister agenda that informs everything the online encyclopedia touches.A new study by the Media Research Center, released Wednesday, shows how Wikipedia distorted its descriptions of various Trump nominees after he announced his intent to name them.The website removed existing coverage of a war hero’s medals, inserted unfounded accusations in place of exculpatory information and added entire sections of evidence-free attacks against people who have devoted their lives in service to America.For example, Pete Hegseth’s original Wikipedia entry prominently displayed the eight medals the US Army combat veteran received for actions on the battlefield, along with their icons.After Trump announced Hegseth as his choice for defense secretary, Wikipedia editors erased three of the medals from the former infantry officer’s main “infobox” and stripped out every icon, drastically reducing the amount of space devoted to his military achievements — a whole new form of stolen valor.When one editor tried to restore some of these images, internal communications show, other editors overruled and reprimanded him — and even threatened to “block” him from making further changes.His effort to bring back the “military icon depictions” would wrongly “plac[e] undue emphasis on one aspect of the individual,” they claimed.  Wikipedia editors polluted Hegseth’s page with numerous evidence-free allegations by the left’s favorite sources: anonymous ones. And when Wikipedia chose to edit a description about a Fox News segment in which Hegseth accidentally injured a performer, it removed mitigating details that had previously been present, including a quote from the hurt individual stating that the damage was “only minor” and a description of how he just �...