Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: CIA Infiltration, Banning Conservatives, & How to Fix the Internet

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Larry Sanger built Wikipedia as an unbiased repository of the world’s knowledge, and then stood helplessly by as activists and intel agencies turned it into the most comprehensive propaganda op in human history. There’s nothing more corrupt. (00:00) The Origins of Wikipedia (04:27) Wikipedia’s Dangerous Policy Changes (14:01) Who Is Responsible for Corrupting Wikipedia? (27:39) How Does Wikipedia Actually Work? (37:28) Is Wikipedia Controlled by the Intel Agencies? (43:16) Sanger’s Request to Elon Musk and Donald Trump to Help Fix Wikipedia (1:01:41 ) How Wikipedia Can Be Saved Larry Sanger is co-founder of Wikipedia. With a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Ohio State, Sanger's career moved from academia to educational and reference projects online. He is now president of the Knowledge Standards Foundation. He has been blogging at LarrySanger.org for twenty years, where he posts influential pieces about the internet, philosophy, education, and most recently theology (his conversion story went viral in February 2025). He also plays Irish fiddle and homeschools his boys. Paid partnerships with: Byrna: Go to https://Byrna.com or your local Sportsman's Warehouse today. PureTalk: Go to https://PureTalk.com/Tucker to and save 50% off your first month. GCU: Find your purpose at Grand Canyon University. Learn more at https://GCU.edu Last Country Supply: Real prep starts with the basics. Here’s what I keep stocked: lastcountrysupply.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tulsa is my home now.
0:02.3	Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone
0:04.6	stars in the Paramount Plus original series, Tulsa King.
0:08.2	His distillery is a very interesting business.
0:11.7	And we've got to know the enemy.
0:13.6	From Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Landman.
0:16.6	What are you saying?
0:17.9	I'm going to ride it.
0:19.1	If you think you're going to take me out, it's going to be really difficult. Tulsa King, new season, now streaming, exclusively on Paramount Plus. Larry Sanger, thank you for doing this. I think about you all the time. Literally, I know it's a little creepy. Because I think that Wikipedia is,
0:39.6	um, you can't overstate the importance of Wikipedia in shaping our collective memory. And
0:46.3	a collective memory really is a culture, a civilization. Who are we? Um, and Wikipedia is the
0:53.1	answer to that question.
0:58.8	Like, who are we? Oh, it's on Wikipedia. And it's so embedded in search that, I mean,
1:03.6	it shapes America. Wikipedia shapes America. And because of its importance, it's an emergency, in my opinion, that Wikipedia is completely dishonest and completely controlled
1:09.0	on questions that matter.
1:33.2	Yeah. is completely dishonest and completely controlled on questions that matter. So, So thank you for coming back.
1:36.0	And I'd love to start the beginning.
1:37.5	Like you created Wikipedia.
1:40.9	How did that happen?
1:43.3	And what were your intentions when you did that?
1:55.2	So Jimmy Wales had registered Newpedia.com, the domain name and simply had the idea of a free public contributed encyclopedia and he hired me. It was like my assigned job to get it started.
2:07.0	That happened in early 2000. So I worked on Newpedia for about a year and it was going very slowly.
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