Who Controls What You're Allowed to Believe? Ashley Rindsberg on Wikipedia, Google, AI Bias & the Hidden Information War Investigative journalist Ashley Rindsberg uncovers documented left-leaning bias baked into Wikipedia, a secretive list deciding which outlets count as "reliable," and a money trail touching the world’s most powerful political networks and elite global foundations and NGO’s. Inside this episode (don't miss): How Wikipedia and Google quietly decide what you're "allowed" to see first on almost any topic — and how one anonymous editor allegedly wrote the rulebook for which sources get trusted and which get blacklisted. How Trump gets labeled an "authoritarian" while actual authoritarian regimes get soft-pedaled — and how Clinton-linked networks and Soros-funded activism allegedly help supercharge that double standard. The Wikimedia Foundation's 2016 pivot into a DEI-branded "social justice" project, and its ties to major political operatives, Clinton-adjacent infrastructure, and activist funding pipelines. The billion-dollar cottage industry of paid editors and "reputation managers" who can lock, rewrite, and curate reality — while public figures can't even correct basic facts about themselves. How entries sourced from Iranian state outlets and Chinese state media make it onto Wikipedia as "reliable" — while outlets like the Daily Mail get blacklisted entirely. How platforms like Al Jazeera, rated a reliable source on Wikipedia despite Qatari state ownership, are feeding directly into the AI tools you use every day — shaping what those tools present to you as neutral fact. Why ordinary people — including Jillian herself — say they can't get false information about them corrected, and what the law actually allows. This isn't just about an encyclopedia. It's about who shapes what an entire generation is told is true, while almost no one is watching it happen. 🎧 New episodes of Keeping It Real with Jillian Michaels drop every week. Subscribe, like, and comment — it genuinely helps the show reach more people. CHAPTERS 0:00 – Intro 2:00 – How Wikipedia's Editing System Works 5:00 – Trump, "Authoritarian" Labels & Wikipedia Bias 8:00 – Iranian & Chinese State Media as Wikipedia Sources 11:00 – The Google–Wikipedia Search Relationship 14:00 – How AI Tools Train on Wikipedia Data 17:00 – Wikipedia's 2016 Mission Pivot 20:00 – Clinton & Soros Ties to Wikipedia's Foundation 23:00 – Tides Foundation and the $100M Endowment 26:00 – State-Linked Editors on Wikipedia 29:00 – Inside the Paid Wikipedia Editor Industry 32:00 – How Wikipedia Reputation Management Works 35:00 – Who Are the "Gang of 40" Editors 38:00 – Wikipedia, Section 230 & Legal Accountability 41:00 – Can Wikipedia Be Fixed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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